Re: Question: Limiting Filetypes Uploaded

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At 6:08 PM -0500 3/2/05, Jonathan Vanasco wrote:
>Great points, and I figured as much would be needed to 'rule in' 
>acceptable items
>
>do you think that the browser mime type would be sufficient to 'rule 
>out' items as a preliminary check?

Not really. You're pretty likely to get a bogus type (like 
application/octet-stream) on uploads. You're likely to miss valid 
files this way.

Richard Rebel also brings up some very good points in his reply.

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