Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53035&edit=1
ID: 53035
Comment by: n dot delargy at ctidigital dot com
Reported by: stuart at horuskol dot net
Summary: finfo_file() returns incorrect mimetype
Status: Bogus
Type: Bug
Package: Filesystem function related
Operating System: Linux/Ubuntu 10.04
PHP Version: Irrelevant
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
It may also be worth noting that the file was converted from an excel sheet to a text tab delimited
and charset was us-ascii
Previous Comments:
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[2011-12-12 12:06:42] n dot delargy at ctidigital dot com
I've also had this issue, using ZF Zend_Validate_File_MimeType a text/plain file (according to
file -i /path/to/file.txt) is incorrectly identified as text/x-c in ubuntu 11.10
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[2011-07-06 19:27:16] shawn at thesignchef dot com
I am having the same issue still. Has this been fixed or is there a workaround. Thanks so much.
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[2010-11-09 16:57:47] stephane at emark dot nl
Hi, I just want to say that I experience the same problem.
As felipe@php.net mentionned, if you have any type of comments at the top of your
file, the problem occurs.
For example, if i try to get the mime type of a js file with comments at the top,
it returns "text/x-c", if i remove the comments, then it returns "text/plain",
which in and of itself is not correct as it should return 'text/javascript'.
Any idea how to circumvent this problem other than removing all my comments ?!?!
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[2010-10-13 00:38:01] stuart at horuskol dot net
"however, the command line tool 'mimetype' correctly identifies the file using the
same library at '/usr/share/misc/magic'"
I tested using the -M switch (as in my example/test script):
mimetype -DM --database /usr/share/misc/magic /path/to/file/reset.css
and this tells me the file is text/css on my platform - are you sure you're using the same
magic database?
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[2010-10-12 07:52:11] aharvey@php.net
I get the same result from the command line "file" program on Ubuntu 10.10:
$ curl -s http://horuskol.net/reset.css | file
--mime-type -
/dev/stdin: text/x-c
mimetype also believes it's C source:
$ mimetype -DM reset.css
> Data dirs are: /home/aharvey/.local/share, /usr/share/gnome, /usr/local/share, /usr/share
> Checking all magic rules
> Value "/*" at offset 2 matches at /usr/share/mime/magic line 1136
reset.css: text/x-csrc
The only way I can get mimetype to return text/css is if it also looks at the extension (ie is
called without -M).
I can't really see any way this is a PHP bug, given other programs using the same magic
database are resulting in the same file being detected as C source. Closing.
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