Content-type in Swarm

[AuHau]

Swarm has support for specifying content-type. Currently, it is possible to define content-type with .get(<<buffer>>, { contentType: 'plain/text' }) but only for raw files. When the data are given filename then it won't work the same as for Directories.

The support is hanging on implementing content-type support for directories which are uploaded as Tar files. According to input from Swarm team it is possible using xattr: user.swarm.content-type. It would be best to have this directly integrated using Erebos which will need some work on that part: MainframeOS/erebos#133

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Old issue

Swarm has very tight coupling between files and their content-types.

IPFS, on the other hand, does not have any support for specifying the content type of files. It uses go mime sniffer for determinating it when serving files over gateway. There is accepted proposal ipfs/kubo#6214 that will enable this in the future, yet it is question when it will happen.

What should be our way? I see to options:

• support content-types, but ignore it for IPFS
• ignore content-types, and use raw mode for Swarm

[AuHau]

For now, resolved with #6

[AuHau]

Reopening this issue as direct support for content-type in Swarm was reverted and will need to be tackled again.

[AuHau]

Solved with #52