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