[Mono-dev] Fwd: Monorail, Mono, Content-type and the registry.....

[Rafael Teixeira]

Cross-posting from Castle-project:

How does one determine the mime-type of a resource (normally a file)
in a portable way?
I know Mono on Debian does have a dependency on the shared-mime-info
package, so it probably wraps/uses it, but is it exposed in some
public API? Specially some API that is available in .NET?

Forgive my ignorance on the subject,

Thanks,

Rafael "Monoman" Teixeira
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On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Rafael Teixeira <monoman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Pending further investigation on available core APIs I would suggest
> that it should be abstracted into a Service (Facility?), that would
> use the registry in Windows, and access the shared-mime-info database
> available in Linux. I'll cross-post to Mono to get better answers on
> details to that.
>
> ASP.NET MVC may implement it's own mapping, or use some core
> (System/Corlib) functionality that may already be implemented also in
> Mono, investigating it is surely a good thing to do.
>
> Just guessing but ASP.NET MVC may just skip the issue completely like
> it happens with traditional ASP.NET where a developer needs to either
> let IIS deal with it (by redirecting to a 'navigable' resource) or
> explicitly setting a hand-computed header.
>
> Just my guesses,
>
> Rafael "Monoman" Teixeira
> ---------------------------------------
> "To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative
> only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you
> want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a
> little more dance to it."
> Osho
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:58 AM, James Curran <james.curran at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've been working on implementing Portable Areas in Monorail.  It's
>> about 95% done.  One item I have left is setting the content type of a
>> file being read from a resource.  Since I have it's extension, reading
>> that from the registry seem simple enough:
>>
>> var contentType =
>> Microsoft.Win32.Registry.ClassesRoot.OpenSubKey(extension).GetValue("Content
>> Type") as string;
>>
>> But, as Monorail is expected to compile under Mono, I assume that
>> means the Microsoft.* namespace is off-limits.  What is the portable
>> way of doing this?
>>
>>
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