[TIKA-1882] Scientific MIME updates to .cab files, .xar and .mobi and .mov files based on TREC-DD-Polar analysis

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.11
• Fix Version/s: 1.13
• Component/s: mime
• Labels: memex nsfpolar patch
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Chris A. Mattmann
• Reporter: Manisha Kampasi
• Created: 01/Mar/16 07:22
• Updated: 29/Oct/19 15:52
• Resolved: 19/Apr/16 05:23

Description

The following mime magic can be added to better detect the below mime-types:

1. vnd.ms-cab-compressed (.cab files) - pattern "MCSF" in the first 4 bytes
2. application/vnd.xara (.xar files) - pattern "xar!" in the first 4 bytes
3. application/x-mobipocket-ebook (.mobi files) - pattern "BOOKMOBI" starting at byte position 60
4. video/quicktime (.mov files) - patterns "free" and "wide" seen starting at byte position 4

The changes can be seen here:
https://github.com/mkampasi/tika/commit/f7433daf434a44937ba3ae8b15813a768f95e334

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: TIKA-1889 Update mimetype for *.qt and *.mov files detection