application/octet-stream with text files on windows
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Description
On Windows 10 a plain text buffer is classified as application/octet-stream which is indicative of a binary file (I think). Ubuntu Linux is correctly identifying as "text/plain".
Python3.9, python-magic-bin as the driver for magiclib
How to reproduce
content = "Bunch of fake content" * 8192
magic = Magic(mime=True)
mimetype = magic.from_buffer(content[0:8192]) # Index to replicate my environment
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Research direction
Start by running the shown Magic(mime=True) and from_buffer reproduction on Windows 10 with Python 3.9 and comparing its result with Ubuntu. Trace the Magic.from_buffer path and the python-magic-bin/libmagic behavior; done means the plain text buffer is identified consistently as text/plain on Windows without breaking the Linux result.
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- python
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- tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
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