Re: handling RSS mime types

Axel Hecht <[email protected]> writes:

> Nic wrote:
>> Does anyone know if it's possible to tell mozilla to handle
>> application/rss+xml natively?
>> Really what I want to be able to do is set mozilla to alias
>> application/rss+xml as application/xml (which it does handle
>> natively).
>> Am I being really dumb about this and there's a simple way staring
>> me
>> in the face?
>
> There is a bug on this, which should be rather easy to fix, just that
> nobody does it. I bet one could call it a "good first bug",
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256084

I don't really understand how that bug report is related to this
problem. The problem I am talking about is one of front line content
negotiation. When I navigate to a resource that does not identify
itself by uri .extension the mime type is used and the mime type
mappings in mozilla aren't flexible enough.

Really, I want to be able to say to the mime type handler:

  application/xml+rss == application/xml

Note that you can't simply bind the RSS and RDF and all the other
sub-XML types to xml inside mozilla because the user might *want* to
map them to some external application.


So is my understanding correct? Does there need to be some way of
aliasing content types for the purposes of handling?


Nic