Re: Document sniffing for type information

On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:

> This means that sniffing the type of the document by looking inside it is
> bound to be unreliable in a system where one program can handle content in
> two or more ways.

Yep.

It's not only unreliable, it's a security risk, described in detail in
MIME standards going back to 1992.  Many of the Windows email worms
(aka viruses) - from Melissa onward - are based on M$'s violation of the
standard.

-- 
Nick Kew

Received on Tuesday, 3 December 2002 14:16:45 UTC