Bug 2635

Summary:	upload restrictions prevent .patch or .txt files
Product:	[Infrastructure] Wiki	Reporter:	Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi>
Component:	wiki	Assignee:	Michael Halstead <mhalstead>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Medium	CC:	sgw
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	Q2
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	---

Description Tom Zanussi 2012-06-20 14:57:30 UTC

I wanted to upload and link to a .patch file in one of my wiki pages, but the upload facility wouldn't let me:

Permitted file types: png, gif, jpg, jpeg, doc, xls, mpp, ods, odt, pdf, ppt, tiff, bmp, docx, xlsx, mov, pptx, ps.

So I renamed the patch file to have a .doc extension, but then got a warning that  I couldn't upload a .doc file because Internet Explorer doesn't like it:

Cannot upload this file because Internet Explorer would detect it as "application/msword", which is a disallowed and potentially dangerous file type.

This despite the fact that .doc is listed as a valid extension above.

In the end I had to rename my .patch file as a .docx, then write a note to the user that it wasn't actually a .docx file.

Also, the 'Ignore any warnings' checkbox apparently doesn't do anything since checking it didn't ignore those warnings.

Comment 1 Michael Halstead 2012-06-20 17:10:33 UTC

I have configured the wiki to allow the file types requested.


The "application/msword" MIME type is currently blacklisted because it could be used to spread malicious code. This will be addressed in an update to Mediawiki.