[Openfontlibrary] Openfontlibrary Digest, Vol 34, Issue 13

[Dave Crossland]

2008/10/26 Brendan Ferguson <drsassafras at gmail.com>:
> After dong a little investigating, ccHost does allow you to see the
> contents of a zip file. I installed ccHost and then uploaded a zip
> file. The contents were there.
>
> Am I on the same page as you guys?

Yes; what it won't do is look inside .tar.gz or .tar.7z or .tar.bz2
archives - or plain .tar archives, even.

> I would not allow me to use all the other font files though

That's because its default settings are to only accept music files;
its meant to power the ccMixter site, you see. If you log into the
site as the admin user you can set the list of acceptable extensions
there.

> There
> should be an option to allow all files! Or perhaps exclude certain
> file types.

Well, AIUI, it has the feature to INclude certain file types, and it
excludes files with no extension.

> like PHP files or other files that could be excruciated on
> the server.

Yes, security is a problem :-(