[File] Gemtext file badly recognized as HTML

[Christos Zoulas]

Running with -d says:

*unknown*, 115: > 0 search/wct/4096,=<a href=,"HTML document text"]
search: [# 2026-01-30 Locking the gate\n\nThe last few days have once again been pretty stressful as the scrape...] for [<a href=] found
0 == 0 = 1 strength=68
[try ascmagic 1]
/Users/christos/bad_mime.DEFANGED-16: HTML document, Unicode text, UTF-8 text, with very long lines (440)

christos



> On Jan 31, 2026, at 7:17 AM, ploumfile at offpunk.net wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The attached "bad_mime" file is recognized by file as HTML despite not having a single HTML tag in it.
> 
> This file should be recognized as plaintext (or gemtext)
> 
> original can be seen here:
> gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-01-30-lock-the-gate
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ploum,
> Heavily relying on "file" in the Offpunk offline browser.
> -- 
> Ploum - Lionel Dricot
> 
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