- From: Benoit Mahe <Benoit.Mahe@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 09:07:35 +0200
- To: mombasa@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov
- cc: Benoit.Mahe@sophia.inria.fr, www-jigsaw@w3.org
Tarang Kumar Patel writes:
> >>>>> On Mon, 20 Jul 1998 09:59:53 +0200, Benoit Mahe <Benoit.Mahe@sophia.inr
> ia.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 a
> n
> >> "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 extensio
> n
> or directory reference. Nither of these being relevant for the case I poin
> t
> 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 w
> ant
> the web server configured to support some default app-helpers too.
>
> Does this make sense ?
>
> Tarang
>
>
First, the indexer is more than a content-type generator. The
indexer specify what kind of resources should be created.
In the case of a cgi script the indexer create the FileReource+
CGIFrame but the cgi-script decide which content type it has.
Benoit.
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