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
