Mime Types
Responses from the Dragonfly app have the HTTP 'Content-Type' header set.
This is decided by the first found from:
- The requested format (e.g. when encode is specifically called)
- The original file extension (you can configure it to ignore this if you wish)
- Analyse the content using the analyser's 'format' method (if exists)
- Analyse the content using the analyser's 'mime_type' method (if exists)
- Use the fallback mime-type (default 'application/octet-stream')
Note that 'format' means 'jpg', 'png', etc. whereas mime-type would be 'image/jpeg', image/png', etc. Formats are mapped to mime-types using the app's registered list of mime-types.
Registered mime-types
Registered mime-types default to the list given by Rack (see Rack mime-types).
To register a mime-type for the format 'egg':
Dragonfly[:my_app].register_mime_type(:egg, 'fried/egg')
You can also do this inside a configuration block.
Analysers
The FileCommandAnalyser has a mime_type
method and the
ImageMagick Analyser has a format
method.
These are both registered by default when you use the preconfigured 'dragonfly/rails/images' file.
Fallback mime-type
By default this is 'application/octet-stream', but it can be changed using
Dragonfly[:my_app].fallback_mime_type = 'meaty/beef'
This can also be done inside a configuration block.