Rails - Apr 2008 - attachment_fu and mime type issues

Hi All,
I am having a problem with the attachment_fu plugin and flac audio files. In
the dev environment, using mongrel, the form upload object does not seem to
have any associated content_type. I get the following attachment_fu
validation error: "Content type can''t be blank". I
don''t understand why the
file_data would not have any content_type. Doesn''t rails set the
content
type based on the mime type? How is it that a file can be uploaded without
any mime type at all? Shouldn''t it at least have
application/octet-stream if
the server can''t parse the actual file type? I tried starting mongrel
with:
 mongrel_rails start -m config/mime_types.yml
and my mime_types.yml file reads:
---
.flac: audio/flac

But this hasn''t helped. Are these configuration loaded mime types only
used
for serving files, and not for associating a content type with uploaded form
data?

Thanks in advance for any tips.

Sean

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I looked into this further, and discovered that with Fireforx uploading of
flac files works: the content_type is set to
''application/octet-stream''. So,
the problem must be related to safari''s handling of mime types for
binary
files. I''ll have to look into that.
thanks,
sean

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Sean O''Hara
<sean.alien8-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am having a problem with the attachment_fu plugin and flac audio files.
> In the dev environment, using mongrel, the form upload object does not seem
> to have any associated content_type. I get the following attachment_fu
> validation error: "Content type can''t be blank". I
don''t understand why
> the file_data would not have any content_type. Doesn''t rails set
the content
> type based on the mime type? How is it that a file can be uploaded without
> any mime type at all? Shouldn''t it at least have
application/octet-stream if
> the server can''t parse the actual file type? I tried starting
mongrel with:
>  mongrel_rails start -m config/mime_types.yml
> and my mime_types.yml file reads:
> ---
> .flac: audio/flac
>
> But this hasn''t helped. Are these configuration loaded mime types
only used
> for serving files, and not for associating a content type with uploaded
form
> data?
>
> Thanks in advance for any tips.
>
> Sean
>
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