[PHP] Re: verify file types when uploading to server...

2002-04-18 Thread Michael Andersson
Maybe you want to share with the rest of us, or at least me how you did it? :) /Micke Jas [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev i meddelandet [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Nevermind... =) Jas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I am wondering if

[PHP] Re: verify file types when uploading to server...

2002-04-18 Thread jas
Oops... Hope this helps others, here is what I did: // This is your form... form name=img1 method=post action=done.php target=box enctype=multipart/form-data input type=file name=img1 size=25 brbr input type=submit name=Submit value=save nbsp;nbsp; input

Re: [PHP] Re: verify file types when uploading to server...

2002-04-18 Thread Miguel Cruz
Not sure what you're tring to achieve, but that only checks the file's name. You might want to use file (man 1 file) to verify that it actually is a JPEG, since people can put malicious data into a file named xxx.jpg and perhaps fool IE into doing bad things. miguel On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, jas

Re: [PHP] Re: verify file types when uploading to server...

2002-04-18 Thread jas
Could you explain that a little more? thanks, Jas Miguel Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Not sure what you're tring to achieve, but that only checks the file's name. You might want to use file (man 1 file) to verify that it actually is a

Re: [PHP] Re: verify file types when uploading to server...

2002-04-18 Thread Miguel Cruz
Unix systems have a program called 'file' that will look inside a file to try to figure out what sort of data it contains, regardless of how it's named. Generally it just looks at the first few bytes for a telltale fingerprint but there are all sorts of rules for different file types. This is

Re: [PHP] Re: verify file types when uploading to server...

2002-04-18 Thread Jas
Ok, I understand how it works at least, however I am not familiar enough with unix systems to know how to effectively use that command. Could you give me an example in code so I can mess around with it? Thanks again, Jas -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe,

Re: [PHP] Re: verify file types when uploading to server...

2002-04-18 Thread Jason Wong
On Thursday 18 April 2002 15:37, Jas wrote: Ok, I understand how it works at least, however I am not familiar enough with unix systems to know how to effectively use that command. Could you give me an example in code so I can mess around with it? Probably easier to just use the

Re: [PHP] Re: verify file types when uploading to server...

2002-04-18 Thread Vince LaMonica
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Miguel Cruz wrote: } Not sure what you're tring to achieve, but that only checks the file's } name. You might want to use file (man 1 file) to verify that it actually } is a JPEG, since people can put malicious data into a file named xxx.jpg } and perhaps fool IE into doing