Rodney Dawes wrote:
Also note that the pattern "*.pot" matches gettext templates and PPT
presentations. The MIME type can also only be determined sniffing the
contents.
I'm sure there are lots of cases where the same extension gets used for
multiple file types. Is there any particular reason we should tell the
application that it needs to rescan the MIME type by sniffing instead?
Can we not just always sniff the first N bytes of the file, by doing
what the "file" program does to sniff metadata? It seems like this would
solve a lot of problems, and I doubt it would cause any significant
performance issues.
For local files that should be okay but for non-local NFS mounted ones
that could have a significant performance hit.
Also, for non "File://" Gnome-VFS uri's you would want to use some kind
of fast non-sniffing detection.
Ideally a file manager would initially use fast extension based mime
types while asynchronously sniffing to make sure they are what they say
they are.
--
Mr Jamie McCracken
http://www.advogato.org/person/jamiemcc/
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