Re: UTI not identified correctly for some users.
Re: UTI not identified correctly for some users.
- Subject: Re: UTI not identified correctly for some users.
- From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:15:14 -0700
- Organization: Rogue Research Inc.
On 6/17/09 7:07 PM, Mitchell Livingston said:
>None of the apps I found have it set up in the Info.plist. From users
>with the problem I've discovered they have it set up as
>"com.bittorrent.torrent". Perhaps I should just change it to that, but
>that's not future-proof enough incase another program decides to
>define a different UTI for it. No matter who I contact, if one app
>sets it to something different, this functionally breaks.
Correct. A malicious app could even do this deliberately.
>Since the
>torrent file format is standard, Apple declaring it would be by far
>the safest thing, and pretty much the only thing that would make me
>remove the extension check (instead of just checking UTI).
Correct. And LS seems to always prefer Apple-provided UTIs.
>I have reported the bug already. I assume they have a stance because
>an iPhone front-end for torrents was rejected, and they won't place
>our app on the Mac OS X software download page.
Interesting. I'll refrain from an OT rant now. :)
BTW: the Carbon list would probably be better for UTI questions, at
least one LS guy hangs out there.
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Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
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