Re: [Netsurf-develop] How to handle lying file extensions?

[James B. <ja...@ne...>]

On Saturday 21 April 2007 12:15, Darren Salt wrote:
> FWIW, this would be fine were its MIME type reported as image/gif; however,
> assuming for a moment that this is so, the browser would still need to cope
> with the misnaming in a locally-saved copy

The file would get saved with filetype GIF, and NetSurf uses the filetype when 
loading local files, so it would still work. The name isn't considered.

> (not a cached copy, since that would still have the correct MIME type).

There is no cache except in memory.

James

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