Bug 13919

Summary: xdg-mime quits too easily when determining MIME type of file
Product: Portland Reporter: W. Michael Petullo <mike>
Component: xdg-utilsAssignee: Portland Bugs <portland-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description W. Michael Petullo 2008-01-03 21:38:34 UTC 
Description of problem:
Unix traditionally looks at the contents of a file instead of just its extension
when determining a file's MIME type. The xdg-mime utility does not do this -- it
seems to only look at the file's extension. This limits its usefulness.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xdg-utils-1.0.2-2.fc8

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
xdg-mime xdg-mime query filetype /etc/passwd
  
Actual results:
Program prints "application/octet-stream"

Expected results:
Should print "text/plain"

Additional info:
Adding the "--slow-mime" option to xdg-mime's use of gnomevfs-info solves this
problem.
Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2010-07-09 08:13:28 UTC 
thanks, fixed in cvs.

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