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# Plumb ## Overview plumb is a drop-in replacement for plan9's plumb command, that understands mime-types of local files and URLs. ## Rules plumb will write plumb messages as the usual `type is text` for non-files, and non-URLs. When the content is one of those, however, it will set the type to that mime. ``` type is image/png type is text/html type is text/plain type is application/pdf ``` In practice, setting a rule for most common mimetypes will serve you well. For example, my last implementation of plumber used a relatively small amount of mimes, after a few years' worth of plumbing in this manner. See https://github.com/halfwit/Plumber/tree/master/cfg/plumber ## About application/octet-stream mimetype If the remote mimetype is `application/octet-stream`, which is a fallback when it cannot infer the mimetype this client will attempt to find a content-type field in any remote URL, finally setting the type to `text`. Reference for mimetype: https://mimesniff.spec.whatwg.org/ Reasonably robust list of mimetypes: https://www.freeformatter.com/mime-types-list.html