Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Kevin L Hochhalter <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 21 May 2002 06:26, Harry G wrote:
> When trying to set the way Mozilla handles certain files, i.e. .pdf
> files for acrobat reader, it asks for a mimie type.
>
> What the heck is that?
>
>
> TIA
>
> Harry G

MIME stand for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension.  The short and sweet of 
it is that every file has a MIME type.  For example, an mp3 (Mpeg layer 3) 
would have a type of audio/mpeg3, audio/x-mpeg3, while a Quicktime file would 
be MIME type video/quicktime, and a Portable Document Format (pdf) has the 
MIME type of application/pdf, etc.  All of these different MIME types will 
have a different (usually) file suffix associated with them.

Try opening the KDE Control Center (if you use KDE), and click on Web 
Browsing, and then choose Netscape Plugins, and have a look at which MIME 
types are associated with which plugins.  This ought to help you out quite a 
bit.

Then in Mozilla if you want to, for example, add the MIME type audio/wav for 
playing wav sounds that are embedded in web pages, you would add the type 
audio/wav and audio/x-wav, with the file suffix of wav, and specify that it 
be handled by /opt/netscape/plugins/plugger.so.  You might want instead to 
just copy plugger.so from /opt/netscape/plugins/plugger.so to 
/opt/mozilla/plugins/plugger.so, or create a link, and tell mozilla to use 
that one instead.  For some silly reason I have never been able to get 
Mozilla to use the plugins in /opt/netscape/plugins, and alway end up just 
copying them to /opt/mozilla/plugins.  Perhaps I had the file permissions set 
wrong, but I'm lazy, so I just copied them ;-)

HTH,
Kevin