#10067: Extension should determine file type with same sniffer rule
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Reporter: humdinger | Owner: bonefish
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Servers/registrar | Version: R1/Package Management
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking: 10917
Platform: All |
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Comment (by pulkomandy):
There isn't a "decisive enough" threshold. Each MIME sniffing rule comes
with a score, the matching rule with the highest score wins.
Interestingly, there is no rule for "text/plain" so I don't know how your
file end up being opened by StyledEdit, unless something else sets the
file type?
So, I see two possible ways to go about this:
- Use the extensions only if no rule matched, as a fallback,
- Factor in the file extensions as an extra hint for the sniffing rules,
and somehow allow them to adjust their score according to the extension
The latter seems better for the original problem in this ticket, where we
have multiple rules matching the content, and use the extension to decide
between them. The former would be better in your case, where there is no
matching rule at all and we would then rely only on the file extension.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/10067#comment:11>
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