On Thu, 04 May 2000 10:41:34 EDT, "Michael H. Warfield" said:
Your mailer may be able to display it as text (mine, Mutt, certainly
can) but it is definitely propagating as type application/octet-stream, not
text/plain. Wish we could lay that one on them, but we can't.
Mea Culpa - seems *MY* MUA decided to be naughty and flag it as a
text/plain, so I reported it as such. I'll shut up now while I
go and beat said MUA into submission and make it not lie to me anymore.
Yes, the data as it was actually stored in the message store was an
application/octet-stream. However, that's not much better, security-wise.
(Although at least with an "application/foobar", you know that it's designed
for application foobar, and can appropriately sandbox your foobar-viewer).
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Valdis Kletnieks
Operating Systems Analyst
Virginia Tech