What you are witnessing of course is the cause behind many of the more grievious hacks out there, where the server sets mime type as gif and sends an exe. On older ie browsers it'll run the exe without asking for permission..... And when you do this in an html email you have your basic virus.
-- Shayne O'Neill http://perth.indymedia.org I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." ----George W. Bush On Thu, 20 May 2004, Geoffrey Talvola wrote: > Interesting... the actual image in the example I just sent is a GIF, but I > accidentally set the content-type to PNG in the servlet. It still renders > properly in both IE and Firefox. I guess they are smart enough to recognize > that the actual image type is GIF based on the first few characters of the > image file. > > - Geoff > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g > Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. > Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Webware-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
