Are they valid PNGs? If so, it sounds like the mime type should just be a child of image/png and drop the glob here.
J. Leclanche On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Thomas Kluyver <[email protected]>wrote: > I've just had a bug reported against PyXDG that a Mimetype test is > returning image/x-apple-ios-png instead of image/png. > > Looking at the XML mime type definitions [0], this new mime type ('Apple > broken PNGs') has the same glob as regular pngs: *.png. They can be > distinguished by magic sniffing, but the test in question is specifically > for when only a filename is available. > > Obviously, a filename like foo.png should be presumed to be image/png over > image/x-apple-ios-png. But how should this be done? Should we prefer > mimetypes without the x- prefix? Could there be a collision between two > mimetypes neither of which have an x-? Is there some other heuristic we can > use? > > [0] > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/commit/freedesktop.org.xml.in?id=afbdfb40a3ff8c255e5d3dab8840cc478a007d45 > > Thanks, > Thomas > > > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg > >
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