[imp] html view in imp (MSWord?)

[Rick Romero]

On 17 Aug 2001, at 7:01, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 04:06:59PM -0500, Rick Romero wrote:
> > If I install an application, at least from /usr/ports (don't remember if 
> > a regular 'make install' does it), it can't be executed until I relog in.  
> > 
> > It's like all the binaries in my path are cached, and it needs to be 
> > refreshed.  <shrug>
> 
> Its your shell.  Try 'rehash'

ah.  Ok, thanks.
 
> > 
> > I didn't realize I had to restart a daemon to 'refesh the path cache' 
> > for a daemon also.  
> > A restart of apache made wvHtml functional.  Therefore I 
> > conculded, the same 'path cache' thingy happens with daemons.
> 
> Nope.  The mime_drivers file is read per-URL and is not cached
> anywhere; a restart of apache would not help - you must have had
> some other config change to httpd.conf that hadnt been activated.

It's not the mime_drivers that I was thinking was cached, but the 
path apache was using.  But, if you say the path is a shell thing, 
then it DOES point to a change in httpd.conf.  

I recreated the process, and that MUST be what happened.  
(change in httpd.conf)

> Random comment on this thread:
> Inlining the msword driver wont automatically cause it to be
> displayed inline, since the Content-Disposition header is used to
> determine the behaviour first.  Most mail clients mark word
> attachments as 'attachment' (surprise), and not 'inline', so
> it'll invariably show up as an attachment.

ahhh.  Which actually brings up another question I had.  How is the 
mime_mapping applied?  Everytime I send an excel file from 
Pegasus Mail (ok, not a whole lot of testing going on here), it 
shows up as an application/octet-stream.  I saw in CHANGES, that 
mime_mapping is experimental, in the future c/would it be used to 
try and autodetect mime types by file extensions?  

At this point a user is kind of stuck, if the mime type is wrong, and 
they don't have the proper app installed locally.
What's the best solution?

Rick