On the English Wikipedia, I have been trying to upload the latest version of wikipedia-mode.el, an Emacs lisp mode for editing wikipedia articles. After submitting the file, I end up at a page that says "Warning: .el is not a recommended file format". There used to be two buttons underneath this, labelled "Upload anyway" and "Cancel", but these have disappeared, which means I'm no longer able to proceed.
Can someone fix this?
-- CYD
On Sep 29, 2004, at 11:08 PM, Chong Yidong wrote:
On the English Wikipedia, I have been trying to upload the latest version of wikipedia-mode.el, an Emacs lisp mode for editing wikipedia articles. After submitting the file, I end up at a page that says "Warning: .el is not a recommended file format". There used to be two buttons underneath this, labelled "Upload anyway" and "Cancel", but these have disappeared, which means I'm no longer able to proceed.
Please see:
On Sep 23, 2004, at 1:09 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
We're tightening up security on the uploads due to exploitable Internet Explorer and Safari bugs that allow for scripting attacks to steal session and saved password cookies.
For the moment uploads are limited to the default extension whitelist: 'png', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'ogg'. Other types of files can't be uploaded to the wikis until we expand it again, but files already uploaded remain accessible.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion Vibber wrote:
On Sep 29, 2004, at 11:08 PM, Chong Yidong wrote:
On the English Wikipedia, I have been trying to upload the latest version of wikipedia-mode.el, an Emacs lisp mode for editing wikipedia articles. After submitting the file, I end up at a page that says "Warning: .el is not a recommended file format". There used to be two buttons underneath this, labelled "Upload anyway" and "Cancel", but these have disappeared, which means I'm no longer able to proceed.
Please see:
On Sep 23, 2004, at 1:09 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
We're tightening up security on the uploads due to exploitable Internet Explorer and Safari bugs that allow for scripting attacks to steal session and saved password cookies.
For the moment uploads are limited to the default extension whitelist: 'png', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'ogg'. Other types of files can't be uploaded to the wikis until we expand it again, but files already uploaded remain accessible.
Maybe .zip .rar .tar.gz should be allowed ?
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:32:28 +0200, Ashar Voultoiz thoane@altern.org wrote:
Maybe .zip .rar .tar.gz should be allowed ?
Um... So anyone can upload a virus as long as they zip it up first? Remember that some systems (like WinXP, for instance) deal with zip files automatically, so you only have to convince somebody that they want to investigate what's inside and... "oh look, it's not a news report about the assassination of George W Bush after all; hmm, why's my computer just frozen?"
So no, I think maybe not.
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