[imp] Binary attachments given mime type text/plain. why?

[Ahmed]

that did nothing which meant that the php mime_magic was being used to
evaluate the file type.

I've disabled the mime_magic support in PHP (now 4.3.4 release) and the
files are correctly assigned the type.

Any ideas there? it obviously there is something wrong with the PHP support.
How did you configure the mime_magic in your php?

Ahmed...


Quoting Michael M Slusarz sent on Fri 07 Nov 2003 19:28:41 GMT

> Quoting Ahmed <ashihab at alcahest.com>:
>
> |
> | Quoting Michael M Slusarz sent on Fri 07 Nov 2003 16:39:11 GMT
> | >
> | > Does this happen with all executable files?  If so, it is possible
> that
> | > .xex
> | > is a text format recognized by your OS/browser, so that when you
> upload
> | > it
> | > your browser is reporting it as text/plain data to IMP (which we MUST
> | > honor).
> |
> | This happens to other files with extensions like .xxx .zzz and .bin
> | they are all the same file with different extensions. they are reported
> | as
> | text/plain
> |
> | > If it is specific only to this file, then we should be looking
> | elsewhere
> | > (do you have mime magic support turned on?)
> |
> | I'm using mozilla 1.5 release, also happens on IE 6.0.2800.1106 both on
> | win2k.
> |
> | mime magic is turned on, here is the excrept from test.php
>
> In my tests (using an old DOS executable file) with both an .exe and a
> .xex
> extension on the file, both browsers I am using (IE 6, Mozilla Firebird
> 0.7
> on Win2K) send the MIME type as application/octet-stream.  Then the mime
> magic process runs on the file and determines it to be
> 'application/x-dosexec', which is correct.  None of my examples ever come
> up with 'text/plain'.
>
> Try turning mime magic off (comment out line 169 of
> horde/lib/MIME/Magic.php
> and replace with 'return false;') and see what happens.
>
> michael
>
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