131266 - wildcard matching of filenames to mimetypes

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: File Handling, enhancement)

Description

[bjoern]

I want to open .ps.gz files with the same program as .ps files
Mozilla does not allow 2 dots in the extension field. the extension "ps.gz" is
reduced to "psgz". Would be nice to allow the dot in the middle.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

To file handling... This is likely a dup of the bug about recognizing
content-encoding from files and the like...

Comment 2

[bjoern]

no, this is not abount recognizing anything this is about file extensions
containings dots.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

A file extension cannot contain dots by definition....  They are dot-delimited. 
What you're really asking for sounds like wildcard matching of filenames to
mimetypes (so *.ps.gz would map to application/postscript, eg?)

Thing is, just mapping .ps.gz to application/postscript is not sufficient unless
your helper does its own gunzipping.  Another approach is to be able to map .gz
to gzip-encoded (so that mozilla gunzips it before passing to helper), map .ps
to application/postscript, and have mozilla do the right thing with .ps.gz
(gunzip and pass to application/postscript helper).

I feel the "other approach" is better, but the one you ask for is admittedly
more flexible....

Comment 4

[bjoern]

okay, I renamed the summary to wilcard matching of filenames to mimetypes. This 
would really be nice to have.