Patch for "1.9_STABLE" branch: https://reviews.mahara.org/3197
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mahara Contributors, which is subscribed to Mahara. Matching subscriptions: Subscription for all Mahara Contributors -- please ask on #mahara-dev or mahara.org forum before editing or unsubscribing it! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1249858 Title: Mahara can't figure out mime types because of a finfo() bug Status in Mahara ePortfolio: Fix Committed Status in Mahara 1.6 series: In Progress Status in Mahara 1.7 series: In Progress Status in Mahara 1.8 series: Fix Committed Status in Mahara 1.9 series: In Progress Bug description: There have been several notable Mahara bugs based around the fact that our current handling of mimetypes is broken. See for instance: - https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1220639 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1249166 The problem is this: 1. You can't really trust the mimetype that the browser sends to you, because different browsers send different wacky things 2. Mahara has long used its own function file_mime_type() in lib/file.php for this purpose 3. file_mime_type() preferentially uses finfo() to check the mimetype. But, there's a bug in finfo() with an external magic db, which is how it is distributed on Ubuntu presently: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61940 4. file_mime_type() falls back to mime_content_type(). But that's now deprecated 5. If neither of those works, we fall back to trusting what the browser told us, which isn't really the best (see #1) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1249858/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors Post to : mahara-contributors@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
