DW wrote: > >When users send email to any of my lists with attachments, they go >through fine. But when someone tries to go back and get an attachment >from one of the archives, they almost always find that the link to the >attachment has a bad extension, and the web browser doesn't know what to >do with it. If you do a "save as" and rename it with the proper >extension, the attachments seem to be intact and ok. But most users >don't know to do this, an it is causing us problems. > >Any solution to this? > >Here is an example of a file that was posted as MyFile.zip: > >-------------- next part -------------- >A non-text attachment was scrubbed... >Name: IFQSysFlights.zip >Type: application/x-zip-compressed >Size: 206816 bytes >Desc: not available >Url : >http://my.mailman.server/mailman/private/testlist/attachments/20050916/132776cc/MyFile-0001.bin
The scrubber makes the extension from the content-type (shown as Type: above). If this doesn't agree with the attachment's extension, the one 'guessed' from content-type is used. Here are comments from Scrubber.py # If the filename's extension doesn't match the type we guessed, # which one should we go with? For now, let's go with the one we # guessed so attachments can't lie about their type. The problem in your case is that application/x-zip-compressed is not a registered type (no 'x-' types are). See ftp://ftp.iana.org/assignments/media-types/ One possible solution is to use an MUA that will call a .zip file "Content-Type: application/zip" which is a registered type, but this probably is not a practical solution. Another possibility is to change the scrubber to use the file extension if any. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
