Re: ftp and MIME-type recognition in Squid v2.1.PATCH1 ....

At 11:51 AM 11/24/98 +0100, Henny Bekker wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I'm getting complains from my users that on some occasions Squid v2.1.PATCH1
>is not returning the right MIME-type of text-files on a FTP-server.. (with
>e.g. Netscape v3.0)

mimetype recognition is base on extension and is configured in mime.conf. The
use of filenames without extensions is a bit confusing and squid decides in
these cases for an octet-stream download. There is not something like magic
mime types as in Apache. This would also a bit counter productive because this
requires squid to read the first part of the file to decide.

>E.g. on ftp://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/psycoloquy/1998.volume.9/ the
>file psyc.98.9.06.connectionist-explanation.3.obrien is showed correctly
>while file psyc.98.9.05.connectionist-explanation.2.orbach (in the same
>directory with the same properties) is not recognized by the browser???
>However, when the text icon is clicked the files are recognized and are
>showen correctly.....
>
>What might be the problem here ???
>
>Cheers, Henny
>
>
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Received on Tue Nov 24 1998 - 05:39:59 MST