How to register MIME type for NPAPI plugin in Linux

[Ashish Mittal]

Hi,

I have written a NPAPI plugin using croos plattform tool(Qt), in
the .res file of my plugin project(on Window OS), I have associated
MIME type with this plugin dll, so that it is getting detected by
firefox, now I wanted to use the same plugin on Linux machine, I have
recompiled the project on Linux machine and getting .so as an output.
But it is not getting detected by firefox , so how do I associate MIME
type with this plugin under Linux env.

or what is equlient of .res file in Linux.??
my dll MIME type is "application/x-shockwave-flash|application/
futuresplash"

Please help

Regards
Ashish

[Enrique Ocaña González]

MIME type registration in Linux happens in a different way. You need to
declare a function in your plugin that will tell the browser about the MIME
type on runtime, when the plugin is loaded:

char *
NP_GetMIMEDescription(void) {
return "application/pdf:.pdf:Portable Document Format";
}

You can get more information about this in the following links:

http://gplflash.sourceforge.net/gplflash2_blog/npapi.html#SEC9
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/NP_GetMIMEDescription

And a full MPL/GPL/LGPL multiplatform plugin sample at:

http://people.igalia.com/eocanha/dev/libertexto/npsimple.tar.gz

(used to be at http://git.webvm.net/?p=npsimple but that's not online anymore)

Hope this to be useful. Cheers.

--
Enrique Ocaña