Not that i know of, although my hacking years are far behind me, so that 
part of my brain may well have atrophied by now.  is it possible for a user 
to manually set the mimetype of a file to something other than what it 
really is?

At 11:04 AM 7/10/2006, Tom Chiverton wrote:

>On Monday 10 July 2006 14:33, Jeff Tapper wrote:
> > script detect the proper mimetype, which I'd like to use to prevent
> > malicious uploads.  Ideally, I'm looking to use the same server side code
>
>Isn't the MIME type set by the client, and therefore is untrusted ?
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