[Radiance-general] Re: HDR MIME type

[Paul LaBerge]

Hi Axel,
A google on MIME found these sites, which might answer your questions.

http://www.mhonarc.org/~ehood/MIME/
http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/
http://www.ietf.org/    (type MIME into the ietf search box for a link 
to 2 memos on MIME types)

Out of curiosity I tried the "athens..." site. I was able to download 
to the desktop and open with Photosphere. The hdr extension was 
preserved.
Paul
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>> Are you looking for something like this?
>> http://athens.ict.usc.edu/FiatLux/hdrview/
>> That is what I use to look at HDR images on Windows computers.  Once 
>> you
>> assign the 'open with', it always works.
>
> No, I am looking for the MIME type. If you click on any of the .hdr 
> images
> on this page:
> http://athens.ict.usc.edu/Probes/
> the web server tells you it's a BIN file. Assigning a default 
> application
> therefor depends on the extension. This is .hdr on the page you quoted,
> but no-one can stop me from serving HDR images with an extension .axl .
> This is where the MIME type kicks in: Once my web server knows that 
> both,
> .hdr and .axl (and maybe .pic) are of type X-HIGH-DYNAMIC-RANGE, for
> example, it will dish out the proper MIME type, and not say it's a BIN
> (which is kinda saying "I've no idea what I'm delivering here...")
> Thanks for the link.
> Cheers
> Axel
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