Re: file(1) / magic(5) database vs shared-mime-info database

Kip Warner <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.xdg.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 2018-02-25 at 16:57 -0500, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> No, Apache has its own mechanism that mostly relies on filename
> conventions, as do most other Web servers.

Interesting. They probably also have different requirements where
sometimes the MIME type has to be detected quickly and purely based on
the file name before there is an opportunity to actually probe the
input stream.

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