anybody looked at mailcap-mime-extensions lately?

anybody looked at mailcap-mime-extensions lately?

[William M. Perry]

It had a pretty serious bug in it. :)

It did not handle mime types with no extension on them gracefully.  So if
you had something like:

multipart/alternative
multipart/appledouble
multipart/byteranges
multipart/digest
multipart/encrypted
multipart/form-data
multipart/header-set
multipart/mixed
multipart/parallel
multipart/related
multipart/report
multipart/signed
multipart/voice-message
text/css			css

(which a lot of default /etc/mime.types do), the content-type of
anything.css would be:

multipart/alternative\nmultipart/appledouble\nmultipart/byteranges\nmultipart/digest\nmultipart/encrypted\nmultipart/form-data\nmultipart/header-set\nmultipart/mixed\nmultipart/parallel\nmultipart/related\nmultipart/report\nmultipart/signed\nmultipart/voice-message\ntext/css

Which is not what you'd want.  This broke Emacs/W3 pretty severely when it
tries to guess the content-type based on the file extension.  Actually, it
thoroughly confused the MIME parser in GNUS, which I now use.  Eek.

Could someone commit this soon?  Thanks.

-Bill P.

Index: mailcap.el
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RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/gnus/lisp/mailcap.el,v
retrieving revision 5.39
diff -c -w -r5.39 mailcap.el
*** mailcap.el	2000/05/07 06:29:05	5.39
--- mailcap.el	2000/07/09 15:05:09
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*** 881,887 ****
        (while (not (eobp))
  	(skip-chars-forward " \t\n")
  	(setq save-pos (point))
! 	(skip-chars-forward "^ \t")
  	(downcase-region save-pos (point))
  	(setq type (buffer-substring save-pos (point)))
  	(while (not (eolp))
--- 881,887 ----
        (while (not (eobp))
  	(skip-chars-forward " \t\n")
  	(setq save-pos (point))
! 	(skip-chars-forward "^ \t\n")
  	(downcase-region save-pos (point))
  	(setq type (buffer-substring save-pos (point)))
  	(while (not (eolp))

Re: anybody looked at mailcap-mime-extensions lately?

[ShengHuo ZHU]

wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes:

[...]

> Could someone commit this soon?  Thanks.

Committed.

ShengHuo