Bug #1012
closedNeed to allow metacat admin to set default mime type
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Description
the metacat servlet does it's best to determine the mime type of the data entity
being served. However, entities that are stored on the local filesystem with a
name in the form of prefix.1.1 don't give the servlet any clues as to the mime
type based on the file ending. As a last resort, metacat sets the default mime
type to application/octet-stream, which results in a 'download' dialog over the
web, rather than attempting to render the data file (even text/plain).
This may be desired, but some metacat admins may want text files to render
preferentially, or other file types. It seems that there needs to be a mapping
between eml dataFormat fields that hold the equivalent of a mime type (or it's
surrogate), and the true mime type name used to set the HTTP CONTENT_TYPE
header. The mapping shouldn't be schema dependent, rather, when a schema is
registered in metacat, the mapping should be registered as well.
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