[Clipart] upload script suggestion

Stephen Silver ocalocal at btinternet.com
Mon Mar 21 06:08:06 PST 2005


I wrote:

> The following two files in the incoming folder can't be fixed:
>
>   stupa_christopher_fynn_01.svg
>   endless-knot-border_chri_01.svg
>
> In both cases everything after the first <g> start tag appears
> to have been stripped out by the upload script - nothing at all
> remains of the image itself.

This line from upload_svg.cgi is surely the culprit:

  $img =~ s|<$_.*?</$_>||gs for 'metadata', 'rdf:RDF', 'rdf';

This line can easily disembowel an SVG file.  It also explains
the damage that had been done to a number of the files in the
failed-file archives.

-- 
Stephen Silver




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