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RE: lynx-dev Overriding mime types
From: |
Danny Ayers |
Subject: |
RE: lynx-dev Overriding mime types |
Date: |
Sat, 23 Mar 2002 09:06:23 +0100 |
>> How do you override mime types?
>
>Not sure what information you are looking for.
Specifically, I was hoping to find a place in a config file where I could
specify that content type image/svg+xml be treated as html and opened in the
browser, not an external app. Ideally I would have preferred CSS handling,
so that <title> and <desc> elements could be viewed in the browser, thus
making SVG accessible to Lynx.
"Overriding" mime types in
>the sense of ignoring the encoding of a particular file type is
>not something
>you want to do lightly.
What potential problems do you envisage?
Just as general knowledge, I offer the following
>suggestions on ways to have Lynx handle files based on the file
>extension(s).
Thanks. This is useful.
Cheers,
Danny.
>1) define a DOWNLOADER in lynx.cfg
>
>2) use a (pseudo)proxy method, or apply the "Cern rules" code
>
>3) define an EXTERNAL in lynx.cfg
>
>4) hardcode Lynx
>
>5) define a SUFFIX/VIEWER *pair* in lynx.cfg, or (IMHO, better,)
> make entries in your PERSONAL_EXTENSION_MAP *and* PERSONAL_MAILCAP.
>
>The last of these options is nice in that it makes things "automagic."
>The method also allows you to have "levels" of extensions. For example
>you can hit [Enter] on the link "http://www.irm.nara.kindai.ac.jp/
>lynxdev/archives/0201.arc.bz2" and have Lynx pass the file to "bzip2" to
>be decompressed, and then pass the decompressed file to "most" for
>viewing by putting the following two lines in, e.g., ".mime.types"
> text/x-archive arc
> application/x-bzip2 bz2
>to define the extension type, and then two lines in, e.g., ".mailcap"
> text/x-archive; /usr/bin/most +s -k %s
> application/x-bzip2; /usr/bin/bzip2 -d %s
>to define what applications should be used to open files of those types.
>
>__Henry
>
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- RE: lynx-dev Overriding mime types, (continued)
- RE: lynx-dev Overriding mime types, Danny Ayers, 2002/03/22
- Re: lynx-dev Overriding mime types, Thomas Dickey, 2002/03/22
- Re: lynx-dev Overriding mime types, Thomas Dickey, 2002/03/22
- RE: lynx-dev Overriding mime types, Danny Ayers, 2002/03/22
- Re: lynx-dev Overriding mime types, Thomas Dickey, 2002/03/22
- RE: lynx-dev Overriding mime types, Danny Ayers, 2002/03/22
- Re: lynx-dev Overriding mime types, Thomas Dickey, 2002/03/22
- Re: lynx-dev Overriding mime types, Al Gilman, 2002/03/23
- Re: lynx-dev Overriding mime types, Michael Warner, 2002/03/22
RE: lynx-dev Overriding mime types, Henry Nelson, 2002/03/22
- RE: lynx-dev Overriding mime types,
Danny Ayers <=
RE: lynx-dev Overriding mime types, Lloyd Rasmussen, 2002/03/22
RE: lynx-dev Overriding mime types, Fiber McGee, 2002/03/23