Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > > Hi, > > today i had received a suspicious e-mail with an attachement > (using Mozilla 1.2.1). > > The filename is displayed as readme.xls (and 3 dots wich can > be easily overlooked). After having a closer look in the headers, > the full name of this attachement is readme.xls<lots of blanks>.scr . > > I think it would be better to cut the filename somewhere in > the middle (specially removing white spaces), so that the > ending of the filename is always visible, otherwise this may > lead to the same problems, like microsofts internet explorer > wich cut of the ending of file names.
Decisions about whether a file is "safe" for some purpose should be made based on the MIME content type, not the file name or "extension". mozilla should always make the MIME content type easily accessible. -- Nelson Bolyard Disclaimer: I speak for myself, not for Netscape
