HTML mimetype

[D Bera]

Hey all,
        I recently noticed that *.html files are getting detected as
application/x-mozilla-bookmarks instead of the correct text/html ! This is
due to an xdgmime mime database (shared-mime-info) weirdness which recognizes
*.html files as application/x-mozilla-bookmarks.
        Just for consolation, gnomevfs-info also makes the same mistake. I wonder
what does nautilus do ?
        And no, beagle's HTML filter does not index application/x-mozilla-bookmarks
file. Its trivial to add the mimetype to the HTML filter but I wonder if that
is the right thing to do. Till this issue is resolved, don't be surprised if
your html files are not indexed! The problem is partly due to
shared-mime-info, so anybody with shared-mime-info-0.22 [1] will face the
same problem.
        Anyone knows anything ?

- dBera

[1]
http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/mime/shared-mime-info/freedesktop.org.xml.in?revision=1.246&view=markup

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[Arun Raghavan-2]

On 19/10/2007, Debajyoti Bera <dbera.web@...> wrote:
<snip>
>         And no, beagle's HTML filter does not index application/x-mozilla-bookmarks
> file. Its trivial to add the mimetype to the HTML filter but I wonder if that
> is the right thing to do. Till this issue is resolved, don't be surprised if
> your html files are not indexed! The problem is partly due to
> shared-mime-info, so anybody with shared-mime-info-0.22 [1] will face the
> same problem.
>         Anyone knows anything ?

Found this 2 month old bug --
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11843.
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[D Bera]

> >         And no, beagle's HTML filter does not index
> > application/x-mozilla-bookmarks file. Its trivial to add the mimetype to
> > the HTML filter but I wonder if that is the right thing to do. Till this
> > issue is resolved, don't be surprised if your html files are not indexed!
> > The problem is partly due to
> > shared-mime-info, so anybody with shared-mime-info-0.22 [1] will face the
> > same problem.
> >         Anyone knows anything ?
>
> Found this 2 month old bug --
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11843.

Aha - right. Further investigation reveals that the problem is due to a commit
for the bug https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266. IMO the fix for
#266 is incorrect, but as always, it takes months and years to get attention
of xdgmime/shared-mime-info developers.
Reverting that particular change (mentioned in 266#5) fixes this problem. Tell
your distribution to enable HTML filtering by temporarily reverting that
change  
http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/mime/shared-mime-info/freedesktop.org.xml.in?r1=1.245&r2=1.246

- dBera

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