Re: fileinfo returning wrong mime type for Excel files

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On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 05:15:38PM -0400, Christoph Boget wrote:

> Consider the following:
> 
>         $finfo = finfo_open( FILEINFO_MIME, '/usr/share/file/magic' );
>         if( $finfo )
>         {
>           $mimeType = finfo_file( $finfo, '/path/to/my/excel.xls' );
>           finfo_close($finfo);
>         }
>         echo $mimeType;
> 
> When I run the above, it echoes out "application/msword".  Why?  I
> understand that both excel and word are part of the office suite but
> why isn't it returning "application/excel" as it should?  As far as I
> can tell, we're using the most up to date version of fileinfo for PHP
> 5.2.5.  Is there something else I'm missing?  Or doing wrong?
> 
> thnx,
> Christoph

Presumably, this information comes directly from /usr/share/file/magic.
FWIW, my copy of this file is in /usr/share/misc/file/magic, which is
where the man page says it should be. Debian Linux v5.

Paul

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