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Ken Krugler commented on TIKA-285:
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The "file" command line utility also has a pretty good set of magic byte
settings - we'd looked at it when working on Krugle. FWIR, it also has a
slightly more sophisticated method for processing magic bytes than what Nutch
(and I guess now Tika) has.
One of the issues we'd run into was the need to be able to use a regex against
the header bytes to determine true file type, versus fixed offsets/values.
> Update media type registry to the latest httpd mime type database
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> Key: TIKA-285
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-285
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: mime
> Reporter: Jukka Zitting
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> The MIME type database included in the Apache HTTP Server is one of the more
> complete and accurate media type and file extension resources out there.
> Their magic byte settings don't seem to be as complete as the ones in Tika,
> but it would be good to check also those settings for extra information.
> ... and we should contribute any of the recent Tika settings back to httpd
> where they don't already know of those details.
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