[Theora] Other extension for Ogg Theora then "ogg"

Ralph Giles giles at xiph.org
Sun May 8 15:02:06 PDT 2005


On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 12:47:59PM -0700, RC wrote:

> That's funny for a few reasons.  First off, MIME type is based on the
> filename on the server anyhow...  Second, MIME type is usually less
> reliable than the filename suffix.  And finally, I haven't yet found a
> filemanager (for Unix or Windows) that will decide what program to open
> a file with, based upon it's contents rather than name.

Perhaps more relevent, the MIME type for Ogg Thoera and Ogg Vorbis are 
also both application/ogg.

Konquerer reportedly does the right thing, FWIW.

 -r


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