Mozilla 1.4/Opera 6.12 & Mime Types

Jeremy Messenger mezz7 at cox.net
Tue Jul 8 16:00:47 PDT 2003


On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 18:37:56 -0400, Gerard Samuel <gsam at trini0.org> wrote:

> In particular, application/octet-stream and application/x-shockwave- 
> flash.
> I have a php script that uploads files, checking for allowed filetypes by 
> its mime type.
> It was put into action some months ago, and today, I notice its not 
> allowing flash files.
> The script is looking for application/x-shockwave-flash mime types, and 
> Mozilla/Opera is
> reporting application/octet-stream.
> Konq 3/IE 6/Mozilla 1.4 (windows)/Opera 7 (windows) is reporting the 
> correct application/x-shockwave-flash (according to info,
> I found around the net)
> Im wondering if there are any known problems with the FreeBSD builds of 
> mozilla and Opera
> with respect to reporting a file's mime type?
>
> Any pointers/tips would be welcome.
> Thanks...

Did you check in their perference/option of mime types, yet? Or have you 
install Flash plugin in FreeBSD?

Cheers,
Mezz


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