sunpy/sunpy — Issue #82: Maps should assume that files are FITS if there is no file extension
Author: ehsteve
Created: 2011-10-17 01:46:26+00:00
State: open

The new maps.io checks the file extension to see whether the file is a FITS file. Many fits files (such as those downloaded from the VSO) do not have a .fits file extension so we should probably not use the file extension to identify files. Maybe by default just try to open the file with pyfits.