reassign 397945 shared-mime-info retitle 397945 Javascript code misidentified as C code thanks
Le vendredi 10 novembre 2006 à 11:07 -0500, Anthony DeRobertis a écrit : > Routinely I get dialogs that read along the lines of: > > Cannot open FOO.js > > The filename "FOO.js" indicates that this file is of type > "JavaScript program". The contents of the file indicate that the > file is of type "C source code". If you open this file, the file > might present a security risk to your system. > > Do not open the file unless you created the file yourself, or > received the file from a trusted source. To open the file, > rename the file to the correct extension for "C source code", > then open the file normally. Alternatively, use the Open With > menu to choose a specific application for the file. > > This is not the most absurd one I've gotten. Once it decided that a WAV > file — that's right, a binary file — is plain text! And then refused to > play it... > > 1. This file doesn't look like C code, at least not any more than any > other JavaScript code. Currently, it is available on the web at > <http://asurvey.net/ccsfagent/media/survey.js>. > > 2. It might present a security risk to the system about as much as, say, > a meteor. A meteor could hit the system. A C file named FOO.js is > probably no more likely to present a security risk when passed to > gvim. > > 3. The suggestion to rename it is, of course, silly because it's been > misidentified. > > 4. The suggestion to use Open With is silly because you have to do that > each and every time; there is no way to say "no, you idiotic > nautilus, you're wrong, it's a damned javascript file, shut up." > > I've searched preferences, I've searched gtweakui-nautilus, I've > searched gconf: There appears to be no way to turn off this. Please, > please fix it... Thanks for your report, and sorry for the delay. The information to identify different file types belongs in shared-mime-info, therefore I'm reassigning this bug. Cheers, -- Josselin Mouette /\./\ "Do you have any more insane proposals for me?"
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