How to add MIME type with Express

Question

I\'m trying to get Firefox to play a video tag. Normally, I would just add this to an .htaccess file on Apache:

AddType video/ogg .ogv
AddType video/mp4 .mp4         


        

Answer 1

For express 4.x, good documentation on mime-type can be found in https://github.com/broofa/node-mime.

For example, Safari browser would show the content of csv instead of downloading the csv with download here.

You can get around this by adding the following

express.static.mime.define({'application/octet-stream': ['csv']})