[Twisted-Python] Static file filenames and MIME types...

[Christopher Armstrong]

On 2003.06.10 21:33, Stuart Hungerford wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I think these questions show my ignorance of HTTP request headers
> as much has anything, but:
> 
> In a twisted.web based application I'm returning a file in a resource
> render() call via the twisted.web.static.File class.
> 
> If I've understood right, it's possible to specify the MIME type
> of the file in the static.file constructor call.  Between this
> setting and a request.setHeader('Content-Type', 'foo') call which
> one takes priority?


The parameter that File takes is _default_Type, which just specifies 
which type to send (using request.setHeader) when no mime type can be
inferred from the extension of the file. So static.File itself does
request.setHeader('content-type', ...) (as well as 'content-encoding').

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