Bug 2635 - upload restrictions prevent .patch or .txt files
Summary: upload restrictions prevent .patch or .txt files
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Wiki
Classification: Infrastructure
Component: wiki (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86 Multiple
: Medium normal
Target Milestone: Q2
Assignee: Michael Halstead
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Reported: 2012-06-20 14:57 UTC by Tom Zanussi
Modified: 2012-06-20 17:10 UTC (History)
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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.