Re: Chora and CVSWeb problems

Hi Anil! On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote: > 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). > uhm, well, but if I send foo.gif and it starts with some "friendly" VBScript I won't bet you'll think the same. Apache does same guessing on the server, which is safer (and does not do it by default, iirc.) > 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? :-) was already discussed on bugtraq not too long ago; I remember a link pointing that it's actually a documented feature :) -- teodor