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Re: [Lynx-dev] Mime-types HELP
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: [Lynx-dev] Mime-types HELP |
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Mon, 30 Jul 2012 05:52:23 -0400 |
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On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:50:21PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> Re: Mime-types HELP
> Hi,
> I've been forced to research this topic, since Lynx omits any details:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME_type
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_header_fields
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> All browsers do the same thing with mime-types, but in different ways.
> What approach does Lynx use?
you can see part of this in the trace file - the headers include
a line "Accept:" which tells the server what lynx accepts.
After that, in the trace file it refers to building a stream stack,
which is complicated to explain :-(
When it retrieves the data, there's another header which
shows "Content-Type:", whose value corresponds to one of the
mime-types.
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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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