Re: [Tools-discuss] Uploading a Markdown agenda

[Tom Pusateri <[e-mail]>]

> On Mar 18, 2020, at 10:02 AM, Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> On 2020-03-18, at 13:52, Yaron Sheffer <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> 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