- From: Tarang Kumar Patel <mombasa@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 13:15:51 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Benoit.Mahe@sophia.inria.fr
- CC: Benoit.Mahe@sophia.inria.fr, www-jigsaw@w3.org
>>>>> On Mon, 20 Jul 1998 09:59:53 +0200, Benoit Mahe <Benoit.Mahe@sophia.inria.fr> said:
Benoit> Tarang Kumar Patel writes:
>>
>> Just the one question :
>>
>> Can one still make use of mime.types file or do I have do facilitate an
>> "indexer" ?
>>
>> Also, aside the "mime.type" file what of "mailcap" file, which on Unix
>> boxes, one uses to configure "Applications/filters" to invoke on a
>> encounte ring a specific mime header.
>>
Benoit> None of these files are used in Jigsaw. Relation between files
Benoit> and mime types are described in the indexer, and Jigsaw has its
Benoit> own filtering system that doesn't use mailcap file.
Benoit> Benoit - did I understood the question?
Yes. Except that if one is generating a "Content" type, say from a
cgi-script to stdout, such as : "Content-type: image/x-xbitmap" then
how does an indexer help, as the indexer only helps based on file extension
or directory reference. Nither of these being relevant for the case I point
out. I mean I uderstand that one has "mime.type" and ".mailcap" files
used by the browser to configure the app helpers, but I figure one would want
the web server configured to support some default app-helpers too.
Does this make sense ?
Tarang
Received on Monday, 20 July 1998 16:52:23 UTC