[Zope] File types and OpenOffice documents (text)

Gilles Lenfant gilles at pilotsystems.net
Fri Aug 29 17:54:48 EDT 2003


Hi,

When uploading an OpenOffice text document ("foo.sxw") to a File object
("foo.sxw"), it's content type prop is set to "application/x-zip-compressed"
!!!

When downloading it with IE or Mozilla (Windows) it renames the file
"foo.sxw.zip". The user has to rename it :-(.

Is there a way to set the correct content type automatically at upload time
(dunno which) and prevent renaming the file ?

* Upload through Python scripts that detects those strnga behaviours and set
the content type according to the file extension ?

* Add a plugin to the File class to check the right type and set content
type accordingly ?

* Other ?

I didn't test but this happens perhaps to other OpenOffice files too
(spreadsheets, presentations...)

Thanks in advance.

--Gilles





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