Comment 17 for bug 185165

Forgive me if this is the wrong place or the wrong information, but in Ubuntu, files with .URL extension and [InternetShortcut] magic word (used to store Favorites in IE, for instance) are being recognized as "resource location (text/x-uri)", and we're trying to figure out how to get it recognized correctly (application/x-mswinurl) and then associate that type with a launcher script.

The [InternetShortcut] magic word and .url glob are defined in /usr/share/packages/freedesktop.org.xml, so I thought I'd bring it up here.

  <mime-type type="application/x-mswinurl">
    <_comment>Internet shortcut</_comment>
    <magic priority="50">
      <match type="string" value="InternetShortcut" offset="1"/>
      <match type="string" value="DEFAULT" offset="1">
        <match type="string" value="BASEURL=" offset="10"/>
      </match>
    </magic>
  </mime-type>

...

  <mime-type type="text/x-uri">
    <_comment>resource location</_comment>
    <sub-class-of type="text/plain"/>
    <!-- Note: text/uri-list is reserved by the XDND protocol! -->
    <glob pattern="*.uri"/>
    <glob pattern="*.url"/>
  </mime-type>

So it seems the glob definition is overriding the magic word definition? If I change the file extension it is recognized correctly. Does the priority need to be changed, then?

Ubuntu bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-mime-data/+bug/185165

Thanks