David J. Biesack wrote:
I'm trying to configure external editors as per [[m:Help:External editors]] and have downloaded the ee extension from http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/extensions/ee/ and I'm reading the install instructions at http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/extensions/ee/INSTALL?rev=1....
I'm running a Windows XP machine. When I go to my MediaWiki 1.5.0 site on our intranet and enable the external editor via my preferences, when I click an article's edit button (using Firefox 1.0.7), I am asked what I want to do with the downloaded file index.php.
I do not want to set up an automatic mime time for php files - that would be dangerous. How do I configure Firefox to present the application/x-external-editor mime type. There is a caveat in the install:
Caveat: Versions of Firefox I've tested are very buggy when indicating the MIME type. It may be displayed as "PHP script" instead of application/x-external-editor -- it will still be correctly associated, though.
but I'm not convinced :-)
Fortunately, I've walked this road. ;)
The Firefox interface is a little screwed up in this respect, and IMHO should be changed. It always uses MIME types internally, never file extensions. Ignoring the type name and extension, check the boxes as you think you should (although some of the meta-info about the MIME type will be a little screwed up).
I'm assuming you've downloaded ee.pl and configured that as needed, changed the bat, etc.
If you want to check it, setup a new profile and associate it. Then check in <Profile>\mimeTypes.rdf (<Profile> is the path of the Firefox profile, eg "%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xclsv8se.default").
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