Method _handle509Bug

magic/__init__.py:128–135

(self, e)

                return self._handle509Bug(e)

    def _handle509Bug(self, e):
        # libmagic 5.09 has a bug where it might fail to identify the
        # mimetype of a file and returns null from magic_file (and
        # likely _buffer), but also does not return an error message.
        if e.message is None and (self.flags & MAGIC_MIME_TYPE):
            return "application/octet-stream"
        else:
            raise e

    def setparam(self, param, val):
        return magic_setparam(self.cookie, param, val)