note 79063 added to ref.fileinfo

The results of this function seem to be of dubious quality. eg 1) a Word doc returns: 'application/msword application/msword' ...ok not too bad, but why does it come back twice? 2) a PHP file comes back as: 'text/x-c++; charset=us-ascii' My test file started with '<?php' so not ambiguous really. And where does it get the charset assumption from? 3) a text doc that starts with the letters 'GIF' comes back as: 'image/gif' (just like in DanielWalker's example for the unix 'file' command) I had better results using the PEAR 'MIME_Type' package. It gave proper answers for 1 & 3 and identified the PHP file as 'text/plain' which is probably better than a false match for C++ Both finfo_file and MIME_Type correctly identified my other two test files which were a windows exe renamed with .doc extension, and a PDF also renamed with .doc extension. ---- Server IP: 87.124.64.96 Probable Submitter: 82.34.219.95 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.fileinfo.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/79063 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/79063/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/79063/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/79063/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/79063/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/79063/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/79063/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/79063 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/79063 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php