Re: lynx-dev mime types? (patch!)

[Leonid Pauzner]

[...]
>> I tried ".mime.types", and it didn't seem to affect Lynx.

> Yes, it does, but only with ftp URLs. With http URLs the filetypes are
> defined in the http server.
[...]

Based on the discussion in this long thread
the documentation update proposed, hope this help:



diff -u old/lynx.cfg ./lynx.cfg
--- old/lynx.cfg        Sat Jan  2 01:09:06 1999
+++ ./lynx.cfg  Mon Jan  4 13:15:30 1999
@@ -1339,7 +1339,8 @@
 # MIME types and viewers!
 #
 # file extensions may be assigned to MIME types using
-# the SUFFIX: definition.
+# the SUFFIX: definition.  [This have an effect for ftp and local files only,
+# http server does specify MIME type in the Content-Type header].
 #
 # The SUFFIX definition takes the form of:
 #    SUFFIX:<file extension>:<mime type>

diff -u old/mime.typ ./mime.typ
--- old/mime.typ        Mon Feb 24 17:10:14 1997
+++ ./mime.typ  Mon Jan  4 13:11:36 1999
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 # see the NCSA X Mosaic documentation at
 # http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/extension-map.html
 # for more details
+# [Lynx uses mime.types mapping for ftp and local files only,
+# http server does specify MIME type in the Content-Type header].

 application/postscript         ai eps ps
 application/rtf                rtf