From 67fdec20726e48ba3a934cb25bb30d47ec4a4f29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Yaroslav=20De=20La=20Pe=C3=B1a=20Smirnov?= Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 11:44:34 +0300 Subject: Initial commit, version 0.5.3 --- node_modules/mime/README.md | 90 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 90 insertions(+) create mode 100644 node_modules/mime/README.md (limited to 'node_modules/mime/README.md') diff --git a/node_modules/mime/README.md b/node_modules/mime/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..506fbe5 --- /dev/null +++ b/node_modules/mime/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +# mime + +Comprehensive MIME type mapping API based on mime-db module. + +## Install + +Install with [npm](http://github.com/isaacs/npm): + + npm install mime + +## Contributing / Testing + + npm run test + +## Command Line + + mime [path_string] + +E.g. + + > mime scripts/jquery.js + application/javascript + +## API - Queries + +### mime.lookup(path) +Get the mime type associated with a file, if no mime type is found `application/octet-stream` is returned. Performs a case-insensitive lookup using the extension in `path` (the substring after the last '/' or '.'). E.g. + +```js +var mime = require('mime'); + +mime.lookup('/path/to/file.txt'); // => 'text/plain' +mime.lookup('file.txt'); // => 'text/plain' +mime.lookup('.TXT'); // => 'text/plain' +mime.lookup('htm'); // => 'text/html' +``` + +### mime.default_type +Sets the mime type returned when `mime.lookup` fails to find the extension searched for. (Default is `application/octet-stream`.) + +### mime.extension(type) +Get the default extension for `type` + +```js +mime.extension('text/html'); // => 'html' +mime.extension('application/octet-stream'); // => 'bin' +``` + +### mime.charsets.lookup() + +Map mime-type to charset + +```js +mime.charsets.lookup('text/plain'); // => 'UTF-8' +``` + +(The logic for charset lookups is pretty rudimentary. Feel free to suggest improvements.) + +## API - Defining Custom Types + +Custom type mappings can be added on a per-project basis via the following APIs. + +### mime.define() + +Add custom mime/extension mappings + +```js +mime.define({ + 'text/x-some-format': ['x-sf', 'x-sft', 'x-sfml'], + 'application/x-my-type': ['x-mt', 'x-mtt'], + // etc ... +}); + +mime.lookup('x-sft'); // => 'text/x-some-format' +``` + +The first entry in the extensions array is returned by `mime.extension()`. E.g. + +```js +mime.extension('text/x-some-format'); // => 'x-sf' +``` + +### mime.load(filepath) + +Load mappings from an Apache ".types" format file + +```js +mime.load('./my_project.types'); +``` +The .types file format is simple - See the `types` dir for examples. -- cgit v1.2.3