Patch to cvsweb?

[Bryce Nesbitt (spam account)]

I am working with CVS HEAD.
My modified version is at:
    http://www.obviously.com/test/cvsweb.cgi/MassGIS/


I implemented an external diff utility.  In this case, it
compares binary application files stored inside a .zip archive.


What I found in the process was a lot of hassle with the
mime types.  Several places the $mimetype does not match
the current file. The moment I added:

    %MTYPES = (
        "gif"   => "image/gif",
        "zip"   -> "application/zup",
       );

cvsweb wanted to display compressed .zip files "as text".
Give it a try, this is easy to reproduce.

Some files are inherently "viewable" in a web browser, and some have to
be downloaded to be useful.  With CVS HEAD that distinction is a bit 
confusing both for the user, and in the code base.

             -Bryce


Ville Skyttä wrote:

>On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 15:56, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
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>>Would you accept a patch to cvsweb related to proper mime types
>>for downloading zip files?
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>Some work with MIME types has been lately done to cvsweb, be sure to
>check out CVS HEAD or the new beta, 2.9.1 (I assume that is not the
>version you're talking about).  The MIME type support is now pretty
>good, however it exposes other annoying things that need to be taken
>care of before 3.0.
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>(And if possible, please also use the freebsd-cvsweb at freebsd.org mailing
>list for FreeBSD-CVSweb related discussion, TIA!)
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