On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:46:43 Julian Melville wrote:
> > I need to establish what suffixes relate to web pages.
>
> You really can't tell from looking at a suffix what's on the other end.
> In fact several of the vulnerabilities with IE have exploited exactly
> this assumption to e.g. send executable content disguised as a GIF.
>
> A .php URL is as likely to return a GIF, download a file or a bit of
> JSON markup as it is to be a web page. Are you able to look at returned
> MIME types instead?
>
>   Julian.

That will probably be part 2, to custom develop a replacement for the existing 
program I am using, which will do MIME type detection as well, however for 
now I just need a list of suffixes as the security issue you described does 
not exist in this application.

Thanks,

Michael

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