I have two applications as mentioned below: Admin application through which I am able to upload a .mp4 file to the server. I am trying to download the .mp4 using mobile application in iPad. The Admin application is made by using asp.net 4.0 and SQL Server, IIS7. The Mobile application is made of asp.net mvc3, … Read more
Reading up on content providers, I keep wondering why both the category and type of Android MIME types are prefixed with vnd. For example: vnd.android.cursor.dir/vnd.<something> vnd.android.cursor.item/vnd.<something> Anyone know what this stands for and what the point is? 2 Answers 2
Suppose I have a full path of file like:(/sdcard/tlogo.png). I want to know its mime type. I created a function for it public static String getMimeType(File file, Context context) { Uri uri = Uri.fromFile(file); ContentResolver cR = context.getContentResolver(); MimeTypeMap mime = MimeTypeMap.getSingleton(); String type = mime.getExtensionFromMimeType(cR.getType(uri)); return type; } but when i call it, it … Read more
This is the usual SVG mime type: image/svg+xml And it works great. However, when embedding an SVG font, chrome tells you the mime type is incorrect, obviously because you return a font instead of an image. Is there any universal mime type? is chrome wrong? is application/svg+xml accepted somehow? I guess this is still a … Read more
I have read this and this questions which seems to suggest that the file MIME type could be checked using javascript on client side. Now, I understand that the real validation still has to be done on server side. I want to perform a client side checking to avoid unnecessary wastage of server resource. To … Read more
I am looking for a simple way to get a mime type where the file extension is incorrect or not given, something similar to this question only in .Net. 20 Answers 20
My program uses its own binary file type, so I assume I can’t use MIME type text/plain, as it is not a 7-bit ASCII file. Should I just call it “application/myappname”? 4 Answers 4
Today I updated Font Awesome package to 4.3.0 and noticed that woff2 font was added. That file is linked in CSS so I need to configure nginx to serve woff2 files properly. Currently I have this block in nginx config for fonts: location ~* \.(otf|eot|woff|ttf)$ { types {font/opentype otf;} types {application/vnd.ms-fontobject eot;} types {font/truetype ttf;} … Read more
In FF and all, my javascript works fine. But in Chrome it gives this message: Resource interpreted as script but transferred with MIME type text/plain. I have checked all the script tags and they all have the MIME type=”text/javascript”. It even says so with jquery and jquery ui. What is wrong with Chrome? What’s the … Read more
I have been reading about how to build plug-ins and this “MIME type” keeps getting discussed in it. I have tried to look into it and know that it is Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) but no suitable explanation of how it relates to browser plug-ins, as in what I need to know about it … Read more
