Bug 266

Summary:	application/x-mozilla-bookmarks not detected
Product:	shared-mime-info	Reporter:	Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpgritti>
Component:	freedesktop.org.xml	Assignee:	Jonathan Blandford <jrb>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high	CC:	dbera.web
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Marco Pesenti Gritti 2004-03-03 14:45:56 UTC

To reproduce run test-mime on a mozilla bookmarks file. It will be detected as
text/html.
I guess it's because glob has priority over magic and mozilla bookmarks file has
extension .html. If you change the extension it works correctly.

The same probably apply to x-netscape-bookmarks.

Comment 1 Jonathan Blandford 2004-03-21 20:14:36 UTC

I upped the magic here.

Comment 2 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2004-03-22 01:59:54 UTC

It doesnt seem to work yet.

bash-2.05b$ ./test-mime /home/mpeseng/bookmarks.html
File "/home/mpeseng/bookmarks.html" has a mime-type of text/html

As I said this seem to happen because glob matching has priority over magics.
application/x-xbel doesnt have any glob matching, though even adding *.html it
doesnt work correctly. In fact we dont seem to have a way to deal with glob
matching of multiple types, we just use the first match.
Maybe we should fall back to magics if there are multiple glob matches ?

Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2005-11-01 03:16:41 UTC

This is a problem in the different implementations, not in shared-mime-info
itself. As Marco said, glob has precedence over magic right now.

Comment 4 Matthias Clasen 2006-07-20 07:29:10 UTC

The xdgmime implementation behaviour in the presence of  multiple matches
has been improved some time ago. Is this still a problem ?

Comment 5 Christian - Manny Calavera - Neumair 2007-06-01 08:28:12 UTC

Thanks for your bug report. This wasn't an xdgmime bug, but a shared-mime-info bug. I merged the mozilla and netscape bookmark MIME type definitions, and added glob patterns for this MIME type. It seems to fix the problem for me.

Comment 6 D Bera 2007-10-19 05:06:53 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> Thanks for your bug report. This wasn't an xdgmime bug, but a shared-mime-info
> bug. I merged the mozilla and netscape bookmark MIME type definitions, and
> added glob patterns for this MIME type. It seems to fix the problem for me.

But why was the extension match added for this MIME-type ? Now xdg_mime_get_mime_type_from_file_name reports _every_ *.html file as a mozilla-bookmark file. 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11843
Probably because as said earlier, glob has precedence over magic!

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