Re: filtering uploaded files

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On Tue, March 29, 2005 2:04 pm, A. S. Milnes said:
> On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 22:23, Richard Lynch wrote:
>> > //The mime type of the file, if the browser provided this information.
>> > $userfile_type=$_FILES['userfile']['type'];
>>
>> Nooooooooooooooo!
>
> Hmm  - some very senior people disagree with you!

Please reference their publications, if possible.

It's just plain BAD security to trust this value for any real-world usage.

And it's made meaningless by the browsers not standardizing what they send
anyway.

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