mimetypes for directories?

Krzysztof Żelechowski giecrilj at stegny.2a.pl
Mon Dec 20 23:32:26 PST 2010


Dnia poniedziałek, 20 grudnia 2010 o 17:59:17 Stef Bon napisał(a):
> Now this construction uses a sort of mimetypes for directories to
> identify directories and the meaning they have in the context.
> 
> For example I'm using the type local.dev.disk.ata.partition for a
> partition on an ata disk.
> Another example: remote.net.smb.share for a remote smb share.

These strings are not media types.  A directory has a (fake) media type "inode/directory".  It is fake because you cannot send a directory over a network as a unit (which is the problem media types try to address).

HTH,
Chris


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