jg0000 commented 8 years ago

lsb_release -a LSB Version: core-2.0-amd64:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-amd64:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-amd64:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-amd64:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch:security-4.0-amd64:security-4.0-noarch:security-4.1-amd64:security-4.1-noarch Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS Release: 14.04 Codename: trusty

aptitude show libfile-mimeinfo-perl Package: libfile-mimeinfo-perl
State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 0.22-1 Priority: optional Section: perl Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Architecture: all Uncompressed Size: 142 k Depends: perl, libfile-basedir-perl, libfile-desktopentry-perl, shared-mime-info Description: Perl module to determine file types File::MimeInfo can be used to determine the mime type of a file. It tries to implement the freedesktop specification for a shared MIME database.

This package also contains two related utilities:

mimetype: determine a file's mimetype
mimeopen: open files according to their mimetype Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/File-MimeInfo

If a file does not contain the <html> tag, /usr/bin/mimetype identifies the file as text/plain. /usr/bin/file seems to be more intelligent, or more tolerant, in this regard.

mbeijen commented 8 years ago

Can you please provide an example of a case that mimetype does NOT handle, but /usr/bin/file does handle correctly?

jg0000 commented 8 years ago

Hi Michiel

Please see attached test file.

My tests:

/usr/bin/mimetype /tmp/mimetestfile

/tmp/mimetestfile: text/plain

file /tmp/mimetestfile

/tmp/mimetestfile: HTML document, ISO-8859 text, with very long lines

Regards,

Jie

Michiel Beijen notifications@github.com wrote:

Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 02:07:00 -0800 From: Michiel Beijen notifications@github.com To: mbeijen/File-MimeInfo File-MimeInfo@noreply.github.com CC: jg0000 j.gao@sydney.edu.au Subject: Re: [File-MimeInfo] Not identifying file of the type text/html if file does not contain the "" tag. (#19)

Can you please provide an example of a case that mimetype does NOT handle, but /usr/bin/file does handle correctly?

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/mbeijen/File-MimeInfo/issues/19#issuecomment-168161023

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mbeijen commented 7 years ago

Determining that a file is an HTML file when it is called something and not something.html and it merely contains some tags that look like HTML but not the required <html> - I'm not sure if I'd find it correct, it might lead to other sorts of problems. File::MimeInfo does not need to be bug-compatible with /usr/bin/file. Closing.

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