Bug 16228

Summary:	shared-mime-info detects a PHP file as HTML
Product:	shared-mime-info	Reporter:	Brett Alton <brett.jr.alton>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Jonathan Blandford <jrb>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTOURBUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Brett Alton 2008-06-04 11:41:17 UTC

Create a file that mimics:

<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php echo 'Test'; ?>
</body>
</html>

and save it as 'test.php'.

Open the file in a program such as gEdit and the file will be detected as HTML and not PHP, even though the file extension is .php and there is php code embedded (ie: '<?php')

Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2008-06-11 07:40:28 UTC

gedit should probably use the mime-type from the globs first, rather than rely solely on the data.

As for detecting the file as HTML rather than PHP, the problem is that we only look in the first 64 characters for "<?php". And your test case is correctly detected as a PHP file...

Bring up this problem with the gedit developers, they should act on the extension first, before checking the data.

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