On 12/27/2002 9:18 PM Nelson B. Bolyard cranked up the brainbox and said:
> 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.

Agreed, to an extent. But one can fake/alter the mimetype. So both is better to
just one. The last 4 characters of the filename should always be visible (4
because then you'd see filename...jpeg in some cases, and filename....jpg in
others, but always seeing the right extention).

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