praba kar enlightened us with: > When we upload a file to the remote server we can get file type > through file extentions.
No you can't, you can only make a better guess. If I name my PNG file somefile.jpg, you won't be able to get the file type through file extentions. > How we can find out file type if a file doesn't have any > extentions? One method is to look at the Content-type header the client sent along with the file. Another way is through the 'file' command. Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list