Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [irsg] how to upload minutes in markdown format?

[Robert Sparks <[e-mail]>]

The trouble is encountered when someone has not installed Xcode or some 
other app that registers the markdown UTI 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Type_Identifier)

Without that, os/x believes the type is simply "Document", and browsers 
use application/octet-stream when uploading.

 From someone on such a system that ran a helpful test:

> $ mdls -name kMDItemContentType -name kMDItemContentTypeTree -name 
> kMDItemKind ./Untitled.md
> kMDItemContentType     = "dyn.ah62d4rv4ge8043a"
> kMDItemContentTypeTree = (
>     "public.item",
>     "dyn.ah62d4rv4ge8043a",
>     "public.data"
> )
> kMDItemKind            = "Document" 
vs what happens when something's registered .md:

> % mdls -name kMDItemContentType -name kMDItemContentTypeTree -name 
> kMDItemKind ./whatever.md
> kMDItemContentType     = "net.daringfireball.markdown"
> kMDItemContentTypeTree = (
>     "public.item",
>     "public.text",
>     "public.data",
>     "public.content",
>     "net.daringfireball.markdown",
>     "public.plain-text"
> ) 

On 8/2/21 9:27 PM, Deen, Glenn (NBCUniversal) wrote:
>
> On 8/2/21, 1:54 PM, "WGChairs on behalf of Jay Daley" 
> <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]> on 
> behalf of [e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On 3/08/2021, at 7:49 AM, Robert Sparks <[e-mail]
>     <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>
>     Dropping the list for a moment.
>
>
>
>         Even so, when the extension is set to .md Finder Get Info
>         (CMD-I) reports the Kind:Document, whereas it reports .txt as
>         Kind:text.
>         (AFAICT MacOS doesn't report literal mime type. Do browsers
>         derive mime type from Kind?)
>
>
>     Using firefox's developer tools -> Networking view into what's
>     sent, my system uploads as follows:
>
>
>         -----------------------------21552262633498723647489224942
>         Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="stir.md"
>         Content-Type: text/markdown
>
>     Finder reports the given file as Kind: Markdown Text (though if I
>     associate it with other editors, it may say Markdown Document, but
>     the Content-Type the browsers choose to use later remains the same.
>
>     Do you have XCode installed? If so, does what finder shows you
>     change away from simply Type: Document to Type: Markdown (mumble)
>     if you tell it to open all files of that type with XCode?
>
> Just tested this.  If XCode is set at the default for .md files then 
> MacOS reports them as "Kind: Markdown Document".  If I set 
> SublimeText, Atom or Bear as the default then it is "Kind: Markdown Text".
>
> Interesting,  XCode is the default markdown editor on my Mac, and 
> uploads work for me.
>
> -glenn
>