[TIKA-351] MediaType.parse should be more forgiving of broken input

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.6
• Assignee: Jukka Zitting
• Reporter: Kenneth William Krugler
• Created: 15/Dec/09 22:42
• Updated: 16/Dec/09 00:11
• Resolved: 16/Dec/09 00:11

Description

Currently MediaType.parse will throw a null pointer exception if you pass it something like "text; charset=utf-8", instead of returning null.

Also, it should handle the "charset first" form that some broken servers return, i.e. "charset=utf-8; text/html"