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. 
>
>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).
>
>>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.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>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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