Re: Guessing based on file extension

[Hans de Graaff <graaff@xs4all.nl>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> If the type is "application/octet-stream", then we look at the thing
> after the dot, and use that as the "real" type.
> 
> On the one hand, this is user friendly.  On the other hand, guessing
> is yucky.  One could add a used config variable to control whether to
> do it or not, but if that defaults to nil, then that won't be very
> used friendly.

If application/octet-stream is all we have then gussing may be the
best way to go. Perhaps we could save the first part of the file and
run it through 'file' to see what kind of file it really is? That
would be more foolproof at least than only looking at the file
extension.

Hans