I'm not really familiar with all of the abuse preventation mechanisms that
are employed, though I assume the MIME type of the photo is somehow
verified. (After all, you can tell if some random sequence of bytes is
actually a JPEG, since it is a standardized format.)

As far as what would happen if a user's account was disabled, I assume there
would be a 4XX error code (perhaps 403) with some sort of appropriate error
string returned. In the future, all of the Data APIs are moving towards
returning XML for their errors as well, which should make it easier to catch
these things and return something readable to the user.

Cheers,
-Jeff

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Feris Thia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> I have another questions regarding malicious use of Picasa services by my
> user which is out of our control. What I can think of is if my user masking
> some non-picture to picture files - eg. like renaming .exe file to .gif file
> and try to upload it to Picasa, what result is returned ?
>
> And if it do that several times, will it get disabled by Picasa internal
> system ? How do I know that the user is being "banned" from using the
> service ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Feris
>
> >
>

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