relax format check

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/util/container_meta_data.c b/src/util/container_meta_data.c
index 039ba86ab..9d20f8dc5 100644
--- a/src/util/container_meta_data.c
+++ b/src/util/container_meta_data.c
@@ -283,7 +283,6 @@ GNUNET_CONTAINER_meta_data_insert (struct GNUNET_CONTAINER_MetaData *md,
       if (pos->data_size < data_len)
         break;
       if ( (pos->type == type) &&
-           (pos->format == format) &&
            (pos->data_size == data_len) &&
            (0 == memcmp (pos->data, 
                          data,
@@ -295,6 +294,12 @@ GNUNET_CONTAINER_meta_data_insert (struct GNUNET_CONTAINER_MetaData *md,
               pos->mime_type = GNUNET_strdup (data_mime_type);
               invalidate_sbuf (md);  
             }
+          if ( (pos->format == EXTRACTOR_METAFORMAT_C_STRING) &&
+               (format == EXTRACTOR_METAFORMAT_UTF8) )
+            {
+              pos->format = EXTRACTOR_METAFORMAT_UTF8;
+              invalidate_sbuf (md);
+            }
           return GNUNET_SYSERR;
         }
       prev = pos;