[whatwg] overriding MIME type in accept attribute?
Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen
hallvors at online.no
Mon Jul 5 16:40:44 PDT 2004
This part of the WF2 spec about the file upload: "accept" attribute
seems a bit odd to me:
> UAs may allow the user to override the MIME type to be one of the
> allowable types if the file is originally incorrectly labeled (but
> should not allow users to override the type merely to let
> submission continue, as that would defeat the point of having a
> restriction in the first place)
How is the UA to allow the user to override a MIME type and how on
earth is it supposed to know the user's motivation for doing so?
Another issue: on Windows, if I try to upload a file with no
extension, how is the UA supposed to work out what the MIME type is?
Content sniffing?
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HRMS
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