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Software => TrID File Identifier => Topic started by: revdrmarsh on May 16, 2008, 05:57:10 PM

Title: Java Script Files Identified as HTML
Post by: revdrmarsh on May 16, 2008, 05:57:10 PM

I have a Java Script file that is identified as an HTML file.

Trid results:

TrID/32 - File Identifier v2.02 - (C) 2003-06 By M.Pontello
Definitions found:  3273
Analyzing...

Collecting data from file: C:\Temp\Example.JS

Warning: file seems to be plain text/ASCII
         TrID is best suited to analyze binary files!

100.0% (.HTML) HyperText Markup Language (3000/1/1)

Content of file:
<!--
// JavaScript Document

var AnswerArray = new Array(5);

AnswerArray[0] = "<h2>Question 1? </h2><p>Answer 1 </p>";
AnswerArray[1] = "<h2>Question 2? </h2><p>Answer 2 </p>";
AnswerArray[2] = "<h2>Question 3? </h2><p>Answer 3 </p>";
AnswerArray[3] = "<h2>Question 4? </h2><p>Answer 4 </p>";
AnswerArray[4] = "<h2>Question 5? </h2><p>Answer 5 </p>";


function getAnswerHTML(topicIndex)
{
   return AnswerArray[topicIndex];
}

-->

I don't know enough about Javascript structure to suggest how to tell the difference, or what in particular makes this differentiate as HTML.

Thanks

Title: Re: Java Script Files Identified as HTML
Post by: Mark0 on May 16, 2008, 06:07:33 PM

TrID (http://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html) in facts isn't very well suited for analyzing text files.
It can get away sometimes with good results, but it depend on a lots of factors. Very "free form" filetypes (like both HTML and JavaScript sources) are among the most easy to cause misidentification.

A file identifier for text files would have been designed in a very different way. Probably a next verision of TrID (or a different tool) will handle that too.

Thanks for your feedback,
Bye!