[wp-testers] Re: image upload error

[Carlo]

>   1. Re: Re: image upload error. (Ryan Boren) (Alex Hempton-Smith)
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> Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 04:55:51 +0100
> From: "Alex Hempton-Smith" <hempsworth at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: [wp-testers] Re: image upload error. (Ryan Boren)
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> +1 for removing the flash uploader and including it as a plugin.
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> Flash-based uploading is clearly an extra frill that
> > > > should be handled in a plug-in. It should not be in
> > > > the WP core code.
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> I disagree because I could make the same argument for the tinyMCE
> > > interface.
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> Indeed you could, a strong one actually.
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> IMHO, TinyMCE should be removed from the core completely, hooks included
> for
> any RTE plugin to use, and a TinyMCE plugin installed and enabled by
> default. The only issue with this is all of the existing plugins which
> depend on TinyMCE; if there were some universal API for adding buttons to
> whichever RTE was enabled, we could overcome this hurdle. A universal
> system
> is already beginning with the media buttons in 2.5, which work regardless
> of
> TinyMCE's inclusion, however this only applies for media plugins.
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> Alex
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As unhappy I was to tinker with anything related to mod_security I added
it  to my .htaccess, uploaded files from SVN (therefore running 2.6
bleeding) and chmod'd 777 the uploads directory.

I added a .htaccess script to only allow serving of images. It all seems to
work.