{{around lunchtime}} September 3rd, 2006 › pjw-mime-config v0.90 released
A while ago I released a simple plugin which allows you to manage the mime-types supported by the WordPress inline-uploader. This plugin worked well for most people baring a issue with php shorttags which made it break some sites. However, some people requested an update to the plugin to support adding a large list of mime-types from a file. I am proud to announce that finally after many months of sitting there 95% finished I am ready to release this plugin update.
Here is the detailed list of changes since the previous version:
- Added support for mime-types described in a file
- Changed the plugin to initialise on the “init” hook rather than at include time
- Added support for mime-types described in a file
- Fixed the shorttags issues
As ever the plugin adds a new options page as Options … Mime-types which allows you to add/delete the extra mime-types.
By default the following extra mime-types are registered: audio/ac3, audio/MPA and video/x-flv.
The latest version of the plugin may be downloaded here: pjw-mime-config.0.90.zip
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Made a list with 386 Mime-types. In case it is usefull for someone.
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I’ve tried to use v0.90 with WP 2.2.1, and it failed to register reg (Windows registry) files properly as text/plain. Now the reported MIME type is MP3. Is there any way to fix this?
Comment by l0b0 — 10/9/2007 @ 1:35 pm §
In the admin panel you can delete individual entries. Therefore you should be able to delete the entry for .reg files and then create a new one that is correct.
Comment by westi — 10/9/2007 @ 5:20 pm §
I tried deleting all MIME-config entries, and the file itself, and then upload the file again. It didn’t help. It’s still downloaded as an MP3 file. I also tried changing functions.php (to include “reg” with the text/plain formats), and uninstalling MIME-config before uploading again, but it seems to be completely broken. Any tips would be great.
Comment by l0b0 — 10/9/2007 @ 5:31 pm §
Ok. It sounds like your server is configured to return a mime-type of MP3 for .reg files and as such that is what is being returned.
The list of mime-types in WordPress (and hence in the plugin) affects what you can upload to the server - it is effectively a whitelist of allowable file types - the mime-type info is stored along with the extension so as to be available when WordPress or a plugin wants to do something special based on mime-type - at present the only mime-types that WordPress does anything special with on presentation is images - where is extras the width and height to put into the generated html.
Comment by westi — 10/9/2007 @ 5:44 pm §
Are you sure that mp3 is reported by the server and not your mp3 player is assigned to text/plain or something like that? A link would help.
Comment by Morty — 10/9/2007 @ 5:57 pm §
Sure, look at the bottom of this post. I’ve tried it on two machines now, and both detect it as MP3.
Comment by l0b0 — 10/9/2007 @ 6:19 pm §
Yep appears as MP3 to me.
Looking at the headers returned by your webserver - it is stating that it is MP3 so it looks like a server config issue I think:
Interestingly, the unix file command (which helps identify file types) says this about the file -
MPEG ADTS, layer I, v1, 160 kBits, 48 kHz, Stereo- I guess your server config maybe using file to determine the mime type automatically.Comment by westi — 10/9/2007 @ 6:26 pm §
I’ve added the following lines to .htaccess:
AddType text/plain .reg
ForceType text/plain .reg
AddType text/plain reg
ForceType text/plain reg
I’ve also downloaded the file, and re-set the encoding to ISO-8859-1. According to jEdit, it was set to “x-UTF-16LE-BOM”.
Still doesn’t work. Any ideas where the MIME type is overridden?
Comment by l0b0 — 25/9/2007 @ 9:36 am §
Ok. I checked the headers returned by your server and they are now fine:
I guess your PC has associated .reg files with a MP3 player though?
Comment by westi — 25/9/2007 @ 10:37 am §
Ah, turned out I just had to clear the browser cache. It indeed works now. Thanks for all the help!
Comment by l0b0 — 25/9/2007 @ 11:11 am §
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