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Re: Magic MIME
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Magic MIME |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:24:30 -0500 |
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> not to fail trying to open it as an archive. Archive files
> have a well-known signature, and using content-based file
> type recognition rather than filename-based is more reliable.
C'mon Juri, you know better than that. We've been through it with the
image-recognition thingy, so it *should* be clear to everyone on this
list now that content based recognition is no better than filename-based
recognition (and vice versa). We need to use both.
Stefan