Content-type in dash upload on windows

[chubukov]

Perhaps this is more of a flask issue than a Dash issue, but using the last example code from https://github.com/plotly/dash-core-components/pull/73 I have the following problem:

If (on windows) I have the csv extension associated to Excel, then when I try to upload the csv file, it shows up as content-type: data:application/vnd.ms-excel;base64.

Does anyone have some suggestions to better guess the input format in this case?

Edit: it looks like there is an update planned that would provide the filename – that would be good enough in my case.

[chriddyp]

@chubukov

it looks like there is an update planned that would provide the filename – that would be good enough in my case.

@chubukov - Yeah, this will help. You should be able to access this property currently with the filename property.

@chubukov

If (on windows) I have the csv extension associated to Excel, then when I try to upload the csv file, it shows up as content-type: data:application/vnd.ms-excel;base64.

Yeah, I should mention this in the docs. The mime-type is not super reliable across platforms. Even in the tests in that PR, the test linux machine displayed a different mime-type than on my MacOS machine.

Checking the suffix should be safer.