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[Robert Lyon <robertl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is an option mentioned here -> https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61940#1336148541 
of a workaround to the problem. 

if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.3.11') >= 0) {

    $magicfile = 'magic_php-gte-5_3_11.mgc';
} else {
    $magicfile = 'magic_php-lt-5-3-11.mgc';
}
$magicpath = __DIR__ . "/../../../config/{$magicfile}";

Where we use both our old magic DB (the one from Ubuntu/Debian), and the
one bundled here: https://raw.github.com/php/php-
src/master/ext/fileinfo/tests/magic


We could use this until the problem is fixed with PHP


** Bug watch added: bugs.php.net/ #61940
   http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61940

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1249858

Title:
  Mahara can't figure out mime types because of a finfo() bug

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Confirmed
Status in Mahara 1.6 series:
  New
Status in Mahara 1.7 series:
  New
Status in Mahara 1.8 series:
  New
Status in Mahara 1.9 series:
  Confirmed

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)

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