172154 - XML Attachments with UTF-8 byte order mark, are not detected correctly

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Bugzilla :: Attachments & Requests, defect)

Description

[David Sheldon]

The "autodetect" option for the attachment does not detect that files are
text/xml if they start with a UTF byte order mark. I assume this is due to the
three bytes (in UTF-8) of "junk" before the XML declaration.

Comment 1

[David Sheldon]

Attachment: XML file with BOM

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

What browser were you using?  The autodetect is done by the client web browser,
not by Bugzilla.  So if it's getting it wrong, it's your browser's fault. 
(Telling Bugzilla to autodetect just means it trusts what the browser tells it)

Comment 3

[David Sheldon]

I was using mozilla, but it was quite some time ago now.

Thank you for that explanation. I was assuming that autodetect used something
like file(1)'s magic database.