Attached is an extended dialog on this subject. I've been reading RFC 1521
for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME), the html internet draft
and various www help pages without success. I expect that a "mime.types"
file is needed as Scott suggests, but I haven't found a reference to one.
These messages are being forwarded in the hopes that someone on the list
can devise a clean way to configure .mailcap (or embed Content-Type info in
.html links) to facilitate 3D browser launching. Thanks for any help.
regards, Don
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Monterey California 93943-5000 USA fax 408.656.2595
AUV Underwater Virtual World ftp://taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil/pub/auv/auv.html
> Re: WWW Viewer Test Page (http://www-dsed.llnl.gov/documents/WWWtest.html)
>
>Thanks, this is a great resource.
>
>I've got a bug with viewing inventor files that you might know how to fix.
>I can view your pointer to an _OpenInventor document_ and it spawns the
>viewer just fine. When I retrieve one of my .iv files, the text of the
>file is displayed and no viewer is spawned. This happens with local files
>too.
>
>thanks, Don
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>Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code OR/Br work 408.656.2149
> Monterey California 93943-5000 USA fax 408.656.2595
>AUV Underwater Virtual World ftp://taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil/pub/auv/auv.html
From: "Scott Nelson" <snelson@canopus.llnl.gov>
Message-Id: <9412111207.ZM12356@canopus.llnl.gov>
In-Reply-To: brutzman@cs.nps.navy.mil (Don Brutzman)
"Re: WWW Viewer Test Page" (Dec 10, 8:28pm)
Don,
Re: auv.iv
when using ivview as follows on your file, I got the following error:
% ivview auv.iv
Reading file(s)...
Running ivquicken...
Segmentation fault - core dumped
Inventor read error: File does not have a valid header string
Occurred at line 1 in <user-defined file pointer>
Error reading file auv.iv
but if ivquicken was turned off then everything looked OK:
% ivview -q auv.iv
I didn't look to see why ivquicken was failing; I'll leave that little
exercise to you...
...
Re: opening local iv files using Mosaic:
1. modify your mailcap file (usually /usr/local/lib/mosaic/mailcap but
might be /etc/mailcap. In general, there are several mailcap files
on your system -- especially if you have an SGI like I do. Best
idea there is to have them all point to a single real file)
as follows:
world/vrml; showvrml %s
world/iv; showiv %s
world/oogl; showoogl %s
where 'showiv' is "ivview", 'showoogl' is "geomview", and 'showvrml'
is your favorite VRML viewer.
2. modify your server mime.types file. This is probably why you
can see my IV files since my machine is the server. When YOUR
machine is the server (i.e. looking at local HTML files) then
you have to also modify YOUR mime.types file. This file is
usually /usr/local/etc/httpd/conf/mime.types
world/vrml wrl vrml
world/iv iv
world/oogl oogl
Note also that like mailcap, there are probably several mime.types files on
your system. It's best to have them all point to one real file.
If the above solves your problem, then please forward these directions along
with any additional comments to www-vrml@wired.com in case others are
having the same problem.
Thanks for your interest. Also, feel free to create pointers from any
of your pages to our Viewer Test Page:
http://www-dsed.llnl.gov/documents/WWWtest.html
Scott Nelson
Lawrence Livermore National Lab
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On Dec 11, 5:59pm, Don Brutzman wrote:
> Subject: Re: WWW Viewer Test Page
>Scott, thanks a lot. I will try what you say tomorrow and will post
>confirmed results to the list.
>
>It looks like it's time for me to take a close read at RFC 1521 (MIME).
>I've been using a .mailcap file but didn't know about mime.types
>files. Do you know if you can have a local .mime.types file?
>Is there a reference for SGIs other than RFC 1521? I didn't see a
>mime.types file on our system.
>
>I've already put a pointer to your web page on ours, thanks again.
>
>regards, Don
>--
>Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code OR/Br work 408.656.2149
> Monterey California 93943-5000 USA fax 408.656.2595
>AUV Underwater Virtual World ftp://taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil/pub/auv/auv.html
From: "Scott Nelson" <snelson@canopus.llnl.gov>
In-Reply-To: brutzman@cs.nps.navy.mil (Don Brutzman)
"Re: WWW Viewer Test Page" (Dec 11, 5:59pm)
If you have an httpd server running then the mime.types
file is in /usr/local/etc/httpd/conf
If you have zmail (MediaMail) then the mime.types file
is actually one or more of the following:
/usr/lib/Zmail/attach.types
/usr/lib/Zmail/bin/type-by-suffix
/usr/lib/Zmail/bin/type-by-magic
There are also mailcap files (either the above) or
in /etc and /usr/local/lib/mosaic
Hope this helps...
SDN
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