On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 21:26 -0400, b wrote:
> On 07/30/2009 10:15 AM, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 07:12 -0700, Christoph Boget wrote:
> >>
> >> You could email it to me, which I presume is better if you replied
> >> back just to me and not the list?
> >>
> > Just copying the l
On 07/30/2009 10:15 AM, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 07:12 -0700, Christoph Boget wrote:
>>
You could email it to me, which I presume is better if you replied
back just to me and not the list?
Just copying the list back on in this one now. I don't know of any
places that you c
gt;
> thnx,
> Chris
>
>
> __
> From: Ashley Sheridan
> To: Christoph Boget
> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 10:05:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [PHP] fileinfo returning wrong mime type for Excel files
>
> On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 07:04 -0700, Christoph B
From: Christoph Boget
>> Have you tried using 'file -i' from the command line: after all you
are looking
>> for a MIME type with your fileinfo...
>> Having said that, with file -i on my system, Word documents are
>> 'application/msword' and Excel files are 'application/octet-stream'
>
> $ file -i
> The xls file I am using was generated with Excel (of Office 2007) for
> the Mac. So either you have a different magic file (assuming that's
> what the file command uses) than I do or different versions of excel
> contain different information.
I just tried using an excel spreadsheet saved using
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 09:51 -0400, Christoph Boget wrote:
> >> Having said that, with file -i on my system, Word documents are
> >> 'application/msword' and Excel files are 'application/octet-stream'
> > Fedora11 (2.6.29.6-213.fc11.i586)
> > $ file excel.xls
> > excel.xls: CDF V2 Document, Little E
>> Having said that, with file -i on my system, Word documents are
>> 'application/msword' and Excel files are 'application/octet-stream'
> Fedora11 (2.6.29.6-213.fc11.i586)
> $ file excel.xls
> excel.xls: CDF V2 Document, Little Endian, Os: Windows, Version 5.1, Code
> page: 1252, Author:
> Have you tried using 'file -i' from the command line: after all you are
> looking
> for a MIME type with your fileinfo...
> Having said that, with file -i on my system, Word documents are
> 'application/msword' and Excel files are 'application/octet-stream'
$ file -i excel.xls
excel.xls: applic
On 07/30/2009 08:53 AM, Peter Ford wrote:
Have you tried using 'file -i' from the command line: after all you are looking
for a MIME type with your fileinfo...
Having said that, with file -i on my system, Word documents are
'application/msword' and Excel files are 'application/octet-stream'
Christoph Boget wrote:
>>> /usr/share/file/magic
>> /usr/share/file/magic has lots of rules to know its type and its just
>> matching it.
>
> I know it has a lot of rules. Grepping it for excel shows that there
> are rules in it for those types of files as well.
>
>> Maybe your file is quite str
> > /usr/share/file/magic
> /usr/share/file/magic has lots of rules to know its type and its just
> matching it.
I know it has a lot of rules. Grepping it for excel shows that there
are rules in it for those types of files as well.
> Maybe your file is quite strange . have you tried with other x
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 05:15:38PM -0400, Christoph Boget wrote:
> Consider the following:
>
> $finfo = finfo_open( FILEINFO_MIME, '/usr/share/file/magic' );
> if( $finfo )
> {
> $mimeType = finfo_file( $finfo, '/path/to/my/excel.xls' );
> finfo_close($
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