mod_mime_magic available

[Ian Kluft <ik...@cisco.com>]

This is something I've been hoping for a while to get approval for.  I got
approval from my manager (and his director, even though I didn't ask) to
make available the "mod_mime_magic" module we've been using internally for
a year.  Their opinions were that it's time to return something to Apache
since we've benefitted from it.

See http://www.employees.org/~ikluft/apache/mod_mime_magic/

mod_mime_magic is derived from the free version of the file(1) command, to
determine a file's MIME type based on "magic numbers" and other hints from
its contents.  It's intended to be used as a last resort when the server
can't determine the MIME type any other way.  We found it very useful for
an environment where there are many users publishing their own files -
too many to get them to always name their files with recognizable suffixes.

Another use has been to determine the difference between overloaded suffixes,
such as ".doc" which is used by both MS Word and Frame.  We have lots of
each.  By omitting .doc from our mime.types file, mod_mime_magic tells
the difference by looking at the file.

I've added it to the Apache Module Registry.
-- 
Ian Kluft  KO6YQ PP-ASEL                                  Cisco Systems, Inc.
ikluft@cisco.com (work)  ikluft@thunder.sbay.org (home)          San Jose, CA

Re: mod_mime_magic available

[Dean Gaudet <dg...@arctic.org>]

I like it.  The html docs have to include credits to Ian F. Darwin though
according to his license. 

+1 on inclusion in 1.3. 

Dean

On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Ian Kluft wrote:

> This is something I've been hoping for a while to get approval for.  I got
> approval from my manager (and his director, even though I didn't ask) to
> make available the "mod_mime_magic" module we've been using internally for
> a year.  Their opinions were that it's time to return something to Apache
> since we've benefitted from it.
> 
> See http://www.employees.org/~ikluft/apache/mod_mime_magic/
> 
> mod_mime_magic is derived from the free version of the file(1) command, to
> determine a file's MIME type based on "magic numbers" and other hints from
> its contents.  It's intended to be used as a last resort when the server
> can't determine the MIME type any other way.  We found it very useful for
> an environment where there are many users publishing their own files -
> too many to get them to always name their files with recognizable suffixes.
> 
> Another use has been to determine the difference between overloaded suffixes,
> such as ".doc" which is used by both MS Word and Frame.  We have lots of
> each.  By omitting .doc from our mime.types file, mod_mime_magic tells
> the difference by looking at the file.
> 
> I've added it to the Apache Module Registry.
> -- 
> Ian Kluft  KO6YQ PP-ASEL                                  Cisco Systems, Inc.
> ikluft@cisco.com (work)  ikluft@thunder.sbay.org (home)          San Jose, CA
>