Moho Animation Forum

I was wondering if it would be possible to add an Anime Studio mime type to a web server? I will do some research on this but have not found much so far.

Would it be as simple as adding; application/x-vnd.lm_mohodoc as a supported mime type to the server configuration? Is this safe to do? I know that some file formats like this are "blocked" so nasty ugly evil people won't use them to do bad things.

I ask because it might be nice if when someone downloads a .anme file from my site, it would be recognized as that file type if Anime Studio is installed. Those files are usually so small they don't need to be zipped. It's annoying to have to zip a single file just because the file extension is "funky".

I'll be checking with hosting provider tomorrow but thought I would throw this out there.

-vern

Funny, my files tend to be big, so I zip them anyway, especially when there's images to be included.

Vern,

One thing that should be possible is to tell the server folks that ANME/MOHO is an ascii file. I'm not at the machine that has all that info right now, but in essence you are saying this is just another alias for a .TXT (which are downloadable on most servers since it's a harmless format).

That should work -- the downloading machines (folks visiting your site) will be able to download the files as text, but they can still have the right extension and thus will open correctly.

I had to do something similar with another file format (and off the top of my head I can't think of what it was, but it opened as something else just fine).

Yes, zipping is an option. Sometimes it's just an uneeded extra step. A lot of the sample files for my tutorials are very very tiny. What I would like is way for them to open in AS right from the download.

However, someone else suggested that can be done via the browser settings in the browser preferences for .anme files.

As it turns out... real pain to add new mime types so I won't bother. It's working fine on the new server so I can stick with text or zip as the format.

-vern