Re: [Tools-discuss] Uploading a Markdown agenda

[Yaron Sheffer <[e-mail]>]

Hi Tom,

The Kind shows as "md 文件" (MD, space, then two Chinese characters). I frankly have no idea how that happened. The default application is Typora, a common Markdown editor.

Sadly, the browser sends it on the POST message with: Content-Type: application/octet-stream

Thanks,
	Yaron

On 3/18/20, 19:59, "Tom Pusateri" <[e-mail]> wrote:

    
    > On Mar 18, 2020, at 10:02 AM, Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]> wrote:
    > 
    > On 2020-03-18, at 13:52, Yaron Sheffer <[e-mail]> wrote:
    >> 
    >> The Mac is a weird weird place.
    > 
    > I’m not claiming I understand it…
    > 
    > In any case, reacting on the purported media type of something uploaded by a browser of undefined configuration does not strike me as a winning strategy.
    > 
    > Grüße, Carsten
    
    I think the current strategy employed by the datatracker is actually ok. I don’t quite understand what is happening on Yaron’s Mac but we can figure it out.
    
    In any event, the design is that files ending with .md are recognized as mime-type text/markdown
    
    Maybe I got this by installing Xcode but this does seem to be the case in the Finder Get Info window.
    
    This is uploaded by the browser as text/markdown and then the datatracker runs a python program that guesses what the mime type is based on the actual content.
    
    If it guesses that the actual content is text/plain and the mime type is set to text/markdown, then it is accepted as text/markdown.
    
    This is why I suggested running the unix file command because it also guesses on the type based on the content, unlike the assigned mime-type based on the file extension.
    
    Yaron, if you open the directory containing your markdown file in the Finder and select it hit CMD-I (Info), what is the Kind report as and what application does it open with by default?
    
    Thanks,
    Tom