Hello all,
Since this is the first message on THE LIST this side of the New Year, I wish
you all a happy and productive 2006. I hope it's going to be better than
2005, and worse than 2007 will be.
And here comes my question:
I was wondering if anybody has any idea as to if there is a MIME type for
HDR images. This is for dishing out HDR through an HTTP server, and if
left undefined, HDRs get served as 'BIN file', which isn't particularly
elegant, and makes assigning the default browser behaviour ('open with
ximage') rather challenging.
Is there a kinda standards body looking after those MIME types, or is this
left to the distributors/developers of OSes, desktop environments and
apps?
Cheers
Axel
Are you looking for something like this?
http://athens.ict.usc.edu/FiatLux/hdrview/
That is what I use to look at HDR images on Windows computers. Once you assign the 'open with', it always works.
HTH
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Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 09:06:39 -0000 (GMT)
From: "Axel Jacobs" <[email protected]>
Subject: [Radiance-general] HDR MIME type
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Hello all,
Since this is the first message on THE LIST this side of the New Year, I wish
you all a happy and productive 2006. I hope it's going to be better than
2005, and worse than 2007 will be.
And here comes my question:
I was wondering if anybody has any idea as to if there is a MIME type for
HDR images. This is for dishing out HDR through an HTTP server, and if
left undefined, HDRs get served as 'BIN file', which isn't particularly
elegant, and makes assigning the default browser behaviour ('open with
ximage') rather challenging.
Is there a kinda standards body looking after those MIME types, or is this
left to the distributors/developers of OSes, desktop environments and
apps?
Cheers
Axel
Are you looking for something like this?
http://athens.ict.usc.edu/FiatLux/hdrview/
That is what I use to look at HDR images on Windows computers. Once you
assign the 'open with', it always works.
No, I am looking for the MIME type. If you click on any of the .hdr images
on this page:
http://athens.ict.usc.edu/Probes/
the web server tells you it's a BIN file. Assigning a default application
therefor depends on the extension. This is .hdr on the page you quoted,
but no-one can stop me from serving HDR images with an extension .axl .
This is where the MIME type kicks in: Once my web server knows that both,
.hdr and .axl (and maybe .pic) are of type X-HIGH-DYNAMIC-RANGE, for
example, it will dish out the proper MIME type, and not say it's a BIN
(which is kinda saying "I've no idea what I'm delivering here...")
Thanks for the link.
Cheers
Axel
Hi Axel,
A google on MIME found these sites, which might answer your questions.
http://www.mhonarc.org/~ehood/MIME/
http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/
http://www.ietf.org/ (type MIME into the ietf search box for a link to 2 memos on MIME types)
Out of curiosity I tried the "athens..." site. I was able to download to the desktop and open with Photosphere. The hdr extension was preserved.
Paul
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Are you looking for something like this?
http://athens.ict.usc.edu/FiatLux/hdrview/
That is what I use to look at HDR images on Windows computers. Once you
assign the 'open with', it always works.
No, I am looking for the MIME type. If you click on any of the .hdr images
on this page:
http://athens.ict.usc.edu/Probes/
the web server tells you it's a BIN file. Assigning a default application
therefor depends on the extension. This is .hdr on the page you quoted,
but no-one can stop me from serving HDR images with an extension .axl .
This is where the MIME type kicks in: Once my web server knows that both,
.hdr and .axl (and maybe .pic) are of type X-HIGH-DYNAMIC-RANGE, for
example, it will dish out the proper MIME type, and not say it's a BIN
(which is kinda saying "I've no idea what I'm delivering here...")
Thanks for the link.
Cheers
Axel
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