[ckan-dev] mimetype suggestion in package creation

Tue May 31 10:52:54 UTC 2011

Hi,

just a quick suggestion of a little feature which would make life for
package creators and maintainers a bit easier.

I have done a quick ticket search about it and have found nothing, so
here it is:

Python Standard library has a module called mimetypes. I suggest using
it to auto-fill the mimetype field for resources. mimetypes can
recognize a large number of mimetypes (see mimetypes.types_map) with
mimetypes.guess_type, and new ones can be added with
mimetypes.add_type.

Naturally when mimetypes fails to guess the file type, the user would
be allowed to fill it in as is currently the norm.

what do you think about it?

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