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Amelia A Lewis said: > So ... when an application is opening a file in a file system, it > typically won't care what the MIME type associated with that file is. In > most cases, it either isn't given (and can't get) that metadata, or it > just *doesn't care*. Most Windows programs care not at all about MIME > types (they care about extensions, as Roger and Rick have noted); likewise > programs written for MacOS didn't/don't care (they care about the > four-letter type code). > > You can *say* that they map to MIME types, if you'd like, and if it's > useful conceptually, but in fact, they don't. They're oblivious to MIME > types. And, in the case of graphics files at least on Windows (IE) it is more complicated than that: a JPEG or a GIF extension can both be sent to the same graphics handlers. So a file can be mislabelled (e.g. a GIF file labelled with a JPEG extension) and still be rendered correctly, based on information inside the file. Cheers Rick Jelliffe
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