Ticket #1485311 (new Bugs)
Common office formats are misdetected by mime detection code
| Reported by: | arekm | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | 5 | Milestone: | later |
| Component: | MIME parsing | Version: | 0.2-alpha |
| Severity: | major | Keywords: | |
| Cc: |
Description
Continuation of #1485152 (no permission to reopen original bug).
finfo doesn't solve this problem. finfo uses libmagic library which itself isn't able to detect many types of M$ attachments properly.
Example with example files found on internet:
$ rpm -q libmagic libmagic-4.25-1.i686 $ file -i * 20080529_zalacznik_nr_3.xls: application/octet-stream Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.doc: application/msword Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.docx: application/zip Office Open XML sample.doc: application/msword Office Open XML sample.docx: application/zip StockChart.ods: application/octet-stream p35-47.ppt: application/octet-stream
xls is misdetected as octet-stream, docx are misdetected as zip files (well, these are zip files in reality but have own mime type for that), powerpoint file misdetected, openoffice calc ods file misdetected.
I think that roundcube should do filename based type detection for these commonly misdetected formats. Unfortunately M$ didn't think about making explict magic in these file formats to make detection easy. The filename (extension) based detection is the only way.
Common mime types: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/conf/mime.types?view=markup , OpenXML types: http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/archive/2006/08/08/692600.aspx
Ideas, comments?
This bug is quite important to fix since office formats are very comonly seen as email attachments. Emails sent from roundcube to outside world, with wrong mime types cause other email clients/webmails to misbehave.
