[Zope] Missing mime-types

Casey Duncan cduncan@kaivo.com
Mon, 09 Jul 2001 09:29:20 -0600


Andreas Jung wrote:
> 
> I disagree. The handling of mime-types happens first on the Python level.
> mimetypes.py comes with four hardcoded locations where it looks for
> mime.types files (no support for windows). User-defined mime-types
> should be put into a local mime.types file. The most common mime-types
> should be part of the mimetypes module and there should be some
> additional support in the mimetypes module to specify user-defined
> mime.types file (env.var or any other mechanism). But it makes
> few sense to maintain the mime-types at at-least three different
> locations (Zope, Python, local mime.types files).
> 

Actually what I was saying was that there should be two files containing
all MIME-types and none would be hard-coded. One would come with Zope
and another could be added by a user if they wanted to support
additional ones.

However since it seems that support for a list in a file is already
there (except for Windows), there doesn't seem to be a strong need to
change things. Perhaps just making it support Windows would help...

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