New submission from Emmanuel Beffara <m...@beffara.org>: According to RFC 1542, the first matching entry in mailcap files should be used for handling a given type. The mailcap module does not respect this rule when wildcards are used in some rules, because the "lookup" function always checks entries for a specific type (say image/jpeg) before checking the generic ones (image/*). As a consequence, if a user overrides system defaults using a generic type, this choice is not satisfied, and the behaviour is inconsistent with other tools using mailcap (including the standard "run-mailcap").
---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 162064 nosy: manu-beffara priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: mailcap does not respect precedence in the presence of wildcards type: behavior _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14977> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
