[4768] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Possible Mosaic 2.4 bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@MIT.EDU)
Thu Aug 4 11:00:55 1994
From: yandros@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 1994 11:00:02 +0500
To: "\"\"Reid M. Pinchback\"\"" <reidmp@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[4767] in SIPB bug reports"
This isn't a bug in mosaic; it's just a slight misunderstanding, and
perhaps a misfeature.
.mime.types is only used for protocols that don't already type thier
messages; i.e. file and ftp. It is not used for typed protocols such
as http and gopher and wais; if your gopher server sends you a file
named really_really_really_I'm_a_GIF_I_promise.gif and the gopher
server says ``It's a soundfile.'' then, in the World Wide Web World,
it's a soundfile.
To do what you want you need the server maintainers to add a type
mapping similar to your own .mime.types.
chad
P.S. ``the misfeature'': there's currently a bug in Mosaic that
manifest itself this way: the Mosaic parser has it's hooks a little
too deep in the program, so that if you send it a file type that it
thinks it could display but not mark up (i.e. text/ascii), but the
file `looks like'' HTML to Mosaic, it'll mark it up. Eit.
