I'm using Google App Engine with Python 2.7 and I'm trying to use an svg-file as a sprite-sheet.
For some reason this works fine on Win7 and Ubuntu, but not on Vista or Mac (Using the latest Chrome and Firefox in each case).
Here it's sent with mime-type "application/octet-stream" and the browsers prompts to download it, instead of displaying it.
I tried overriding the mime-type in my app.yaml like this:
- url: /img/.*\.svg
static_dir: public/img
mime_type: image/svg+xml
- url: /img
static_dir: public/img
But that didn't change anything.
I also tried to route requests for svg-files through their own url like this
- url: /img/svg
static_dir: public/img
mime_type: image/svg+xml
- url: /img
static_dir: public/img
But that results in the file being sent with mime-type "img/png", so the browser will at least try to display it, but can't.
Just to make sure, I tried each combination as stated and also with the headers-options:
- url: /img/svg
static_dir: public/img
http_headers:
mime-type: image/svg+xml
Without success.
Any help please?
[edit]
After some more testing, it seems like on Ubuntu using the local app-launcher, it sends the svg as text/html and when deployed it uses application/octet-stream, regardless of what I put in the app.yaml.
Does anybody have experience with this? The only way I can solve this is to insert the svg-code into the page directly, which kinda sucks. It's a graphic and I want to treat it that way.
[more edit]
In the end, I put this in the yaml-file and it seems to work:
- url: /img/.*\.svg
static_dir: public/img
http_headers:
content_type: image/svg+xml
- url: /img
static_dir: public/img
Try:
http_headers:
content-type: image/svg+xml