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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: kparts and mimetypes
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-11-04 22:51:14
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On Jeudi 1 Novembre 2001 22:16, George Staikos wrote:
-- > While working on kcertpart, I have noticed a problem with mimetypes and 
> kparts.  Now perhaps there is a way around it, but I have yet to find it.  It 
> goes like this:
> 
> On a webpage in konqueror, I click on a file that is 
> application/x-x509-ca-cert.  Konqueror loads my part correctly, but it seems 
> to save the file to a different filename so that when I try to get the 
> mimetype of the filename, it returns application/octet-stream.  This works 
> fine if I use konqueror in file browsing mode though.  There is no mime magic 
> for this filetype so I have to depend on the filename.

Over HTTP we rely on the Content-Type header... If not set, then
mime magic is used. If you can fix the HTTP configuration, that
would be the right fix......
 
> One other thing:  Is it possible for us to try to guess at text/plain files 
> we get via web pages (or other)?  

Yes, kio_http is full of such hacks already....
But how would you guess that ?

--
David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~david/ , http://www.konqueror.org/
KDE 3.0: Konquering the Desktops

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