Re: Chora and CVSWeb problems

From: Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 20:57:15 +0000
Subject: Re: Chora and CVSWeb problems
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On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 11:29:18PM +0300, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > > It does even worse. It tries to guess file type from the content. I hope > somebody will invent some worm that uses this misfeature so that they > would finally fix it... > Guessing the file-type from the first few magic bytes is probably a good thing (especially in the case where other methods have failed, and the MIME type has fallen back to application/octet-stream or something equally unhelpful). The bug here is that it ignores the explicit Content-Type header instead of its own detection mechanisms, which is clearly bad. Anyone want to file a Microsoft bug report? :-) Anil

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