Bug 12030

Summary: application/octet-stream is returned for text files
Product: xdgmime Reporter: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso>
Component: xdgmimeAssignee: Jonathan Blandford <jrb>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Tomeu Vizoso 2007-08-16 11:37:46 UTC 
xdg_mime_get_mime_type_for_file() returns application/octet-stream for files without a recognized extension.

If I understand correctly the spec, some effort should be done to distinguish between binary files and text files:

"If nothing matches, the default type of application/octet-stream should be used for binary data, or text/plain for textual data. Checking the first 32 bytes of the file for ASCII control characters is a good way to guess whether a file is binary or text, but note that files with high-bit-set characters should still be treated as text since these can appear in UTF-8 text, unlike control characters."

gnomevfs does this in _gnome_vfs_get_mime_type_internal(), calling _gnome_vfs_sniff_buffer_looks_like_text().
Comment 1 GitLab Migration User 2018-10-13 10:33:30 UTC 
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