Re: Mime-type handling

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:31:52PM +0100, Manuel Vacelet wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm facing a bad behaviour of 'file' command used by fileinfo PECL module > (recommanded for mime-type checking): > * Some Microsoft Excel documents are detected as Microsoft Word documents > * Some HTML files are just text/plain > * ... > > I tested on multiple machines (with different version of file) and I > sometimes obtain a diffrent behaviour but never the one expected :/ I also > looked for the latest version of file but it seems that the file used to > detect the mime-type is out of date... I'm not familiar to how fileinfo detects the contents, is the file it is using a file like: /usr/share/misc/magic > ... > * Where can I find an up-to-date version of magic number list usable with > file for mime type checking ? If the above is true, a updated version should be availble for the OS you are using. Curt. -- cat .signature: No such file or directory