On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 18:19, Fabio Gomes wrote: > Some people are telling that if we use file suffixes to determine MIME > types, GNOME will have the same vulnerabilities that Windows has. This > is not true. [snip] > -- > Fabio Gomes de Souza <fabio@xxxxxxxxxx> (+55 81 9127-0597) > > .- GS2 TECNOLOGIA DA INFORMACAO LTDA :: www.gs2.com.br > |- IT Infrastructure :: Security :: Embedded systems :: Linux > `- Olinda, Brazil - +55 81 3492-7777 - negocios@xxxxxxxxxx > My 2 cents: MIME Type by suffix only for speed/time critical applications, such as displaying large directories. Proper MIME Type sniffing for all "real" operations, such as file associations. Basically using suffix as an approximation algorithm to speed things up for noncritical operations. Neither MIME database or suffix based ways are going to be perfect, so we should be constraining our ideas to what ways we can get them to work together. Cheers, Ryan _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
