Thank you Frederick. That's what I was thinking (hoping). @pepe I do check it's MIME type before uploading, but the file is actually never saved. So as long as .read, or parsing, won't trigger the exe/ ruby/php script, then I think I'm ok.
On Mar 29, 3:56 am, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 29, 8:17 am, GoodGets <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I need to read (and parse) a user uploaded file. I check it's MIME > > types, as well to see if includes proper headers by reading the file, > > but I was wondering can something like params[:uploaded_file].read > > trigger any EXEs or ruby/php/etc files? Or, is "read" good to go? > > read does just return the bytes in the IO stream to you - it doesn't > do anything with them. > > Fred -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
