KMimeType::findByUrl() misdetection for "Core"

[David Faure]

On Sunday 05 July 2009, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> for the details please have a look at:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198477

Sent a proposal for a solution to xdg-list.

> What I'd like to know is wether an application should/can rely on
> findByUrl() doing as much as it can to properly detect the right
> mimetype. As far as I understood the API docs, this is the "catch all"
> method that one should use if there's a url. From my understanding I
> shouldn't need to care myself wether the url is local or remote and then
> also do a KMimeType::findByContent(), is that right?

Correct. It does all of this (unless disabled by fast_mode=true).

> In particular the current documentation doesn't say anything about
> the behaviour when a file has no extension, only the bugreport shows
> that in that case there are some mimetypes which are matched based on
> filename and that precedes over a content check - even for local files.

Yes, as specified by the shared-mime-info standard. I think repeating the
whole matching algorithm of the spec into the apidox for KMimeType would
be a bit overkill ;-). As far as the user of the API is concerned, it's 
supposed to just work, and if it doesn't, bug report for shared-mime-info or 
me :)

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