[webkit-dev] Mimetype for files loaded from disk?

[Mike Emmel]

In the curl backed some code uses file extensions to set the mime type
for local files.
I'm not sure css files are handled.


On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Kevin Ollivier <kevino at theolliviers.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  I've hit an issue with the wx port where HTML files that use @import
>  url("file.css") will not load when the HTML and CSS file are on disk
>  rather than loaded via the web. After tracking it down, I found that I
>  could resolve the issue by having CURL set the file type for
>  m_response to "application/x-unknown-content-type", which enables the
>  CachedCSSStyleSheet::canUseSheet test to pass, but I'm not sure this
>  is the right approach.
>
>  Another wrinkle to this issue is that this problem doesn't appear on
>  the Windows wx port, only Linux/Mac. I'm fairly certain this
>  discrepancy is not due to wx code, and so I was wondering how other
>  ports (Apple's and otherwise) handle this issue. Is there some
>  alternative approach to setting the mimetype explicitly, or is there
>  some extension <-> mimetype mapping being used in some cases?
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  Kevin
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