Subj : Couple of JS Questions
To   : Apam
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon May 23 2022 11:49 am

  Re: Couple of JS Questions
  By: Apam to All on Mon May 23 2022 07:34 pm

 > Hi
 >
 > I'm mucking around in JS, and am creating a gemini service for synchronet.
 > It serves files in /sbbs/text/gemini/ (not exactly hard coded, i'm using
 > system.text_dir + "gemini".)
 >
 > First question, is it possible in synchronet javascript to determine the
 > mime-type of a file?

You could load ctrl/mime_types.ini using the File class and compare the extension.

 > At present I'm just using a switch statement based on the extension - is
 > this the best way to do things?

Ideally, you'd use the same mime_types.ini file used by the web server.

 > The second question, I'd like to add cgi type interface, which would load
 > javascript files from the gemini root. I'm unsure how to execute another
 > javascript file from within a service javascript file (or at all).

load(), require() and js.exec() are used to execute a JS file from a JS file.
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