[issue22589] mimetypes uses image/x-ms-bmp as the type for bmp files

2017-12-05 Thread Jonathan Watt
Jonathan Watt added the comment: I'm unfamiliar with the Python contribution procedures. If it's simply a case of cloning from github.com and putting up a PR then I can do that. I'm overloaded currently though, so if it's more involved than that it may take me a while

[issue22589] mimetypes uses image/x-ms-bmp as the type for bmp files

2017-12-05 Thread Jonathan Watt
Jonathan Watt added the comment: > If image/bmp is now[*] the official IANA type You can find image/bmp here: https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml#image -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issu

[issue22589] mimetypes uses image/x-ms-bmp as the type for bmp files

2017-12-05 Thread Jonathan Watt
Jonathan Watt added the comment: I should note that while Chrome will refuse to open an image/x-ms-bmp file directly, when loaded as an image embedded in a document (e.g. via HTML's ) then Chrome doesn't care what MIME type it has. It will sniff the image stream and detect from it

[issue22589] mimetypes uses image/x-ms-bmp as the type for bmp files

2017-12-05 Thread Jonathan Watt
Jonathan Watt added the comment: Using image/x-ms-bmp because that's all that IE7 supports makes no sense. Chrome doesn't support image/x-ms-bmp (it only supports the official IANA type image/bmp), so if the concern is over browser support then it's clear that Chrome (the b