>Number: 2608
>Category: other
>Synopsis: mod_magic returns mime type application/msword for non-MS Word
>documents
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: apache
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: apache
>Arrival-Date: Tue Jul 14 09:20:00 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Organization:
apache
>Release: 1.3.0
>Environment:
HP-UX B.10.20
gcc version 2.8.1
>Description:
The mod_magic modules caused the application/msword mime type to be returned
for other Microsoft Office documents which aren't microsoft word. This seems
to be caused by the Microsoft Office documents using a common document format
(OLE?)
I have checked the three recognition strings in the supplied magic file against
a variety of Microsoft Office document and here are the results:
0 string \376\067\0\043
Word for Macintosh 5.0
Word for Macintosh 5.1
0 string \320\317\021\340\241\261
Powerpoint version 4.0
Powerpoint version 7 (Office 95)
Powerpoint 97 (Office 97)
Word for Windows version 7 (Office 95)
Word for Windows 97 (Office 97)
Excel version 7 (Office 95)
Excel 97 (Office 97)
0 string \333\245-\0\0\0
Word for Windows version 2.x
>How-To-Repeat:
Serve documents of the above versions and check the mime type reported by the
client/browser.
>Fix:
Comment out or remove line two of the three application/msword lines in the
magic file until a way can be found to distinguish these documents from each
other.
>Audit-Trail:
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