[Clipart] Problems with the website during/after submission

[Jon Phillips]

Stephen Silver wrote:
> Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> 
> 
>>Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> writes:
> 
> 
>>>Why does the script need to check the filetype. It seems that this
>>>should automatically be checked for, right? 
>>
>>I'm not at all sure it's technically possible to guess right 100% of
>>the time.  I don't know enough about all of the file formats we
>>support to know if there is reliable identification magic for all of
>>them and, if so, that it is.
> 
> 
> It would be enough for now just to look at the filename and deduce
> the filetype from that - not 100% reliable, but probably more reliable
> than the current method of hoping that the user specifies it correctly.
> Later it would be possible to add code to inspect the file itself, but
> this isn't essential for now.

Yeah, you make a good point. What if a user doesn't select the right filetype? I 
think I would trust our system to pick rather than a user honestly.

> A quick web search suggests that the way to get the filename is to parse
> it out of the Content-Disposition header field, described in RFC 2183.

Cool...can you provide a link?

Jon


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