On Tuesday 16 July 2002 04:04 pm, you wrote:
From the upload log:
"Upload of file BritanyUndergound.exe - Britany Spears Underground Nude Video"
This is probably a _bad_thing_ -- some sysop should delete this ASAP. (I am not a sysop). We should also disable the download of anything with a .com or .exe file extension (and of course do the same in the beta test code).
Neil
I tottally agree -- but instead of banning certain file extensions I say we should think about only allowing certain ones. But at any rate, .exe and .zip should /never/ be allowed to be uploaded.
Also, is there an efficient way for the software to check uploads, for example, to see if in fact a file with an image extension is really an image and not an exe or mp3 in disguise?
--maveric149
Daniel Mayer wrote:
I tottally agree -- but instead of banning certain file extensions I say we should think about only allowing certain ones. But at any rate, .exe and .zip should /never/ be allowed to be uploaded.
Also, is there an efficient way for the software to check uploads, for example, to see if in fact a file with an image extension is really an image and not an exe or mp3 in disguise?
A quick shell out to the "file" command should answer that nicely.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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