Re: lynx-dev Overriding mime types

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 07:37:36PM +0100, Danny Ayers wrote:
> Thanks, but this doesn't appear to make any difference - my guess is that
> the mime type in the http header is taking precedence.
> 
> I tried adding :
> 
> GLOBAL_EXTENSION_MAP:/usr/share/mime.types
> 
> to lynx.cfg
> 
> and in
> 
> /usr/share/mime.types
> 
> I've got
> 
> text/html svg xml
> 
> but when I point to a file with the extension .svg (which my server's saying
> is image/svg+xml) I still get the D)ownload or C)ancel options.

It works for me (I simply modified my $HOME/.mimetypes to test - perhaps
that's the area where the problem lies).  Attaching a trace file.

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Lynx.trace.gz
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