Re: Suggestion: Uppercase extensions should be downcased

[Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Lars Olsson<lasso@lassoweb.se> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> While working with some files created on Windows in Ramaze i discoved
> that the web server returned the wrong content-type in some cases. I
> tracked this down to the mime_type function in rack.
>
> (from file rack/lib/rack/mime.rb)
> def mime_type(ext, fallback='application/octet-stream')
>    MIME_TYPES.fetch(ext, fallback)
> end
>
> This gives me trouble when the file extension includes uppercase letters
> as nothing in MIME_TYPES is matching. I think the code should be changed to:
>
> def mime_type(ext, fallback='application/octet-stream')
>    MIME_TYPES.fetch(ext.downcase, fallback)
> end
>
> which makes extensions like .JPG work again.

OK, pushed a patch for that.

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