On 10/13/07, Keith R. Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> ...I agree.  I now see the wisdom of making application/octet-stream the
> default mime type, possibly with the ability to override that....

Same here, +1 on that.

> ...I think we want to consider what Tika should do with
> such a byte stream.  One option is to run it through strings to get ASCII
> text.  Another is to have it fail the parse so that the user can be notified
> that Tika could not find a (definitely) suitable parser....

Agreed, this should probably be a "fail on unknown mime-type"
configuration switch.

-Bertrand

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