[COTDC] 62 - MIMEType

Today: MIMEType

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Laurent

On 12 May 2011, at 20:35, laurent laffont wrote:

> I guess and represent the content type of a file. For a description of what is MIME, see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_media_type
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME
>
> Examples:
>
> MIMEType forFileNameReturnMimeTypesOrDefault: 'index.html'.
>
> MIMEType fromMIMEString: 'application/zip'.

However, MIMEType does not properly deal with extra parameters, as in 'text/plain;charset=utf-8'.
It also does not 'know' very much.
That is why there is a ZnMimeType.

Sven

may be we should deprecate MIMEType then.
Since now Zinc is in :)

>> I guess and represent the content type of a file. For a description of what is MIME, see
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_media_type
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME
>>
>> Examples:
>>
>> MIMEType forFileNameReturnMimeTypesOrDefault: 'index.html'.
>>
>> MIMEType fromMIMEString: 'application/zip'.
>
> However, MIMEType does not properly deal with extra parameters, as in 'text/plain;charset=utf-8'.
> It also does not 'know' very much.
> That is why there is a ZnMimeType.
>
> Sven