• Usability

Old office documents are uploaded as application/vnd.ms-office

Depending on the Wiki server I use (it works on my home pc but not on the main server I maintain) old office documents (i.e. .doc, .xls, .ppt) are uploaded with mime-type application/vnd.ms-office. Instead they should have the mime-type application/msword for .doc, application/vnd.ms-excel for .xls and application/vnd.ms-powerpoint for .ppt. Note that the new formats (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx) are set correctly.

Why do we want the correct (more precise) mime-types?

The reason this is annoying (for me) is because I wanted to setup indexing of binary file content for searching. The search is based on the mime-type and with mime-type application/vnd.ms-office there is no easy way to assign it a binary-to-text-converter. If however the files had the correct mime-types I could assign the corresponding conversion program for each mime-type...

Fixing mime-types based on file extension?

Again it would be nice if there was an option to fix mime-types based on their extension. If it works without that: fine! But I read at several places that Fileinfo extension is not really reliable. It would be nice if there was an option/program to make sure that all mime-types are set according to a Tiki-Wiki standard (independant of the web server used). It would also be nice if it could correct all existing files. Example:

I uploaded some files before the mime-type fix. They all have the type application/zip. After the mime-type fix the files upload with the correct mime-type but I still have the existing application/zip files that I now have to search and fix manually by reuploading...

All in all I think it would provide a nice tool for users that have issues with mime-types...

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