Here is an annoying thing
CB
ubuntu-users at crispin.cb-ss.net
Tue Jan 11 21:36:47 UTC 2005
S.P. van Noort wrote:
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>The reason for this message is to prevent "spoofing" of filenames, that
>a malicious person gives a file an "innocent" extension like .txt, but
>that the file is really (determined by the mimetype) a more dangerous
>file.
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>When nautilus sees a mismatch, determined by the file /etc/mimetypes,
>each line consisting the mimetype with the corresponding extension, it
>refuses to open the file by just clicking on it (open with... works
>fine, because you then explicitely tell nautilus with which program to
>open the file).
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>>From nautilus 2.7.1 on, if both the filetype corresponding to the
>extension and the filetype corresponding to the mimetype, are opened
>with the same program, no error is shown. So if you match both
>"Microsoft WMF video" and "Microsoft ASF video" to be opened in mplayer,
>no errors should appear anymore.
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>Hope this helps,
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>Sander
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I have associated both types to be opened in gxine, but I still get the
error if I open an typical .wmv (ie. where nautilus thinks the mimetype
is really asf).
Is there a place to configure application associations for nautilus? I
do it by right-clicking on the file, choosing 'properties', then 'open
with'. That though only shows me the association for that particular
file type. Is there somewhere that I can see and edit them all?
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