> On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 10:20 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> > Well, first issue was only to compare file extension to provided mime type,
> > so it would hit .gif file of type image/jpeg
> > 
> > >> or do we need a FileType plugin?

On 26.05.09 11:23, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> Yes - comparing MIME image type to the file extension is already
> obsolete.

Are you sure? Have you made any measures that tell such comparision is
useless and has much of FPs?

> During the weekend I got a few image spams via a SourceForge mailing
> list with MIME type image/jpg and filename something.jpg. gthumb
> confirmed these were PNG files. The ImageInfo plugin caught them too.

To have good opinion, I'd prefer doing comparision of mismatches between
filename/mimetype, mimetype/magic and filename/magic, there could tell us
if the first is enough or not.

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