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6 years ago An obvious use case for mimetypes would be to check if file has correct mimetype, by getting the type with some of libmagic wrappers, and then comparing to guess_type result.
But it seems that they don't always match. One example: applicattion/rar vs application/x-rar https://github.com/file/file/blob/b9e60f088847f885b5c9fde61ff8fc9645843506/magic/Magdir/archive#L986
Kills half the usefullness of the module.
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