Re: How to register MIME type for NPAPI plugin in Linux

On Lunes, 5 de Diciembre de 2011 09:43:22 Ashish Mittal escribió:

> I have written a NPAPI plugin using croos plattform tool(Qt), in
> the .res file of my plugin project(on Window OS), I have associated
> MIME type with this plugin dll, so that it is getting detected by
> firefox, now I wanted to use the same plugin on Linux machine, I have
> recompiled the project on Linux machine and getting .so as an output.
> But it is not getting detected by firefox , so how do I associate MIME
> type with this plugin under Linux env.
> 
> or what is equlient of .res file in Linux.??
> my dll MIME type is "application/x-shockwave-flash|application/
> futuresplash"

MIME type registration in Linux happens in a different way. You need to 
declare a function in your plugin that will tell the browser about the MIME 
type on runtime, when the plugin is loaded:

  char *
  NP_GetMIMEDescription(void) {
          return "application/pdf:.pdf:Portable Document Format";
  }

You can get more information about this in the following links:

  http://gplflash.sourceforge.net/gplflash2_blog/npapi.html#SEC9
  https://developer.mozilla.org/en/NP_GetMIMEDescription

And a full MPL/GPL/LGPL multiplatform plugin sample at:

  http://people.igalia.com/eocanha/dev/libertexto/npsimple.tar.gz

(used to be at http://git.webvm.net/?p=npsimple but that's not online anymore)

Hope this to be useful. Cheers.

-- 
Enrique Ocaña