WebM files are served as Content-Type: application/octet-stream

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WebM files are served as Content-Type: application/octet-stream

Opened this issue 9 years ago · 6 comments

It should be video/webm; otherwise many browsers treat it as a download. Similarly .ogv should be video/ogg. .mp4 appears to be working correctly. I haven't tried any other types.

Answer 1 · 2015-07-11T06:27:16.000Z

I believe this is a result of two things: Nginx being set to default to application/octet-stream, and Fuwa simply serving files without any MIME type checking/setting. I'm sure Flask MIME operations are supported at some level and can be integrated fairly easily.

Answer 2 · 2015-07-11T12:20:02.000Z

Flask should detect the MIME type automatically. Maybe it's really limited?

Answer 3 · 2015-07-11T17:03:16.000Z

Is there not some form of more advanced MIME detection/header setting with Flask?

Answer 4 · 2015-07-11T17:06:22.000Z

Sure, you can pass mimetype to send_from_directory and do the detection yourself

Answer 5 · 2015-07-11T17:08:05.000Z

I assume Python has some way to read the first few bytes of any given file and return the MIME type. Using detection like that with manual mimetype setting should probably work.

Answer 6 · 2015-07-11T17:11:16.000Z

The file object on upload should have a content type var