[plug] MIME Types by file contents

[Bernd Felsche]

On Monday 05 July 2004 17:09, James Devenish wrote:
> In message <40E919BE.7080902 at postnewspapers.com.au>
>
> > or one of its subclasses to do with parsing text/news headers. Is it
> > definitely made to be able to handle news articles?

> I wonder if it is something to do with the possible similarity between
> headers of saved news articles and headers of RFC822 e-mail messages?
> Inserting the blank line would make the headers appear to be in the
> "body" and therefore no attempt would be made to parse them as headers.
> (Not sure how that would lead to Bernd's specific error, though.)

The detected document sub-type changes from news to x-news when the
blank line is inserted.

I've played around a bit with the document sub-type, but with no
change in behaviour.

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