Nigel Metheringham wrote: > On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 15:29, Alexander Sabourenkov wrote:
>
>>Hmm. Now let's see.
>>The type of the attachment is determined by its Content-Type header.
>>Now what's wrong with Mozilla sending a multipart/message-rfc822 attachment
>>having a Content-Disposition: attachment; name="ForwardedMessage.eml" ?
>>
>>Extension can have some relevance to the actual content type for the MUA if
>>and only if the stated content-type is 'application/octet-stream' if I'm
>>not mistaken.
>
>
> You've not ventured into the world of windows have you?
No, I just tried to point out a certain false positive.
Not that I'm not happy ever since I dumped windows in favor of freebsd.
> Extension is everything, bugger the MIME type.
Extension is nothing, content-type is nothing. They're untrusted user input.
Analyze the content to know what's it.
