[SLING-1059] Mime Type Detection should use Apache Tika

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Commons Mime 2.1.4
• Fix Version/s: Commons Mime 2.1.6
• Component/s: Commons
• Assignee: Felix Meschberger
• Reporter: Lars Trieloff
• Created: 21/Jul/09 16:54
• Updated: 19/Aug/14 18:25
• Resolved: 10/Nov/11 11:55

Description

Sling's WebDAV servlet currently has its own Mime Type detection mechanism. Given that Tika is a dependency of the soon to be added Jackrabbit 2.0 we can re-use Tika's Mime Type detection mechanism for greater accuracy and a better maintained list of mimetype-extension-mappings.