Closed oupala closed 5 years ago
Oh if this works, then this is great! It is a much better idea to assign icons based on file type, rather than file extension.
There are many advantages of using mime type instead of using file extension:
The generic mime type
video/*
is way shorter than a long list of extensions.asf .asx .avi .flv .mkv .mov .mp4 .mpg .rm .srt .swf .vob .wmv .m4v .f4v .f4p .ogv
.
Imagine an mp4 video file uncorrectly renamed to
myvideo.mp3
, it should be displayed as a video, not as an mp3 audio, as it is a video.
The main drawback is that we can no longer use the touch
command to create test files. We now have to get real test files.
Mime types are now named media types at IANA.
The list of media types currently supported by apache can be generated using the following oneliner:
wget -qO- http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/conf/mime.types | egrep -v ^# | sort
wget -qO- http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/conf/mime.types | egrep -v ^# | awk '{ for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) {print $i" "$1}}' | sort
For file type without supported media type by apache, we'll have to fall back to the old way (AddIcon
instead of AddIconByType
).
I have added all useful media type in apaxy. Consequently, it should have added a lot of file extensions to apaxy supported file extension list.
It was a long research to switch from file extension to corresponding media type, then from media type to all supported file extension. But htaccess and documentation should be up to date.
I started to replace some AddIcon directives by AddIconByType.
It seems to work and is a good oppotunity to simplify the
.htaccess
file.This work needs to find all used mime-types.