Premshree Pillai ([info]premshree) wrote,
@ 2005-05-06 13:06:00
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Daily Dose of Suck

I was updating my profile on Blogger some time back. In the photo section, I pointed to this image. After submission, I get the following error:

This is a genuine question, and not a belittling rant: is there a reason for this? I mean, shouldn’t they be checking for the MIME type or something?


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[info]teemus
2005-05-06 09:43 am UTC (link)
Maybe they are not willing to use ONE HTTP request to determine the MIME type. Waste of bandwidth?

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[info]premshree
2005-05-06 09:54 am UTC (link)
I thought so, but considering that only logged-in users can upload photos, which means less abuse, I don’t see the problem with an HTTP request to do determine the MIME type. Moreover, reading the MIME type itself would require reading only a few bytes.

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[info]saiprasad
2005-05-06 10:02 am UTC (link)
That's exactly the same thing I tried to do a while back. And that's precisely what I fussed about!

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[info]revjim
2005-05-06 02:08 pm UTC (link)
extensions are so 1990's. :)

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[info]bluesmoon
2005-05-07 12:01 am UTC (link)
as is IE

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(Anonymous)
2005-05-06 02:24 pm UTC (link)
Can you not work around that by appending ?.jpg to the URL?

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[info]premshree
2005-05-06 02:35 pm UTC (link)
I have no control over LJ’s URLs, you know.

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Maybe like this ?
(Anonymous)
2005-05-08 02:04 pm UTC (link)
http://www.livejournal.com/userpic/15998854/1741321?picture=head.jpg

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Re: Maybe like this ?
[info]premshree
2005-05-09 03:26 am UTC (link)
It understands URL parameters. So, doesn’t work.

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[info]teemus
2005-05-06 03:21 pm UTC (link)
Google must hire more programmers than rocket scientists! :P

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[info]bluesmoon
2005-05-07 12:00 am UTC (link)
MSIE is why

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[info]premshree
2005-05-07 12:44 pm UTC (link)
Explain, please.

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[info]bluesmoon
2005-05-08 08:16 am UTC (link)
Since MSIE determines what to do to a file sometimes using the content type and sometimes using the extension, and since it's hard to know when it uses both, any server serving something has to make sure that both the extension and the content-type are correct. In their case, it's to prevent XSS

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[info]ga_woo
2005-05-11 02:05 pm UTC (link)
Funny...I feel better now about this whole thing...Microsoft is like a hate-sink. You can hate them without having it affect your blood-pressure.

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