[wp-testers] "File type does not meet security guidelines. Try another." has no clue what it's talking about.

[Lloyd Budd]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Nightgunner5 [Ben]
<nightgunner5 at llamaslayers.net> wrote:
> I tried uploading three different compressed archives of the same
>  folder.  One was .zip, one was .tar.gz, and one was .tar.bz2  The .zip
>  and .tar.gz were allowed, the .tar.bz2 was blocked with the "File type
>  does not meet security guidelines. Try another." message
>
>  On closer examination, the .tar.gz file's filename was changed from
>  testfile.tar.gz to testfiletar.gz

Sounds like a bug, is it a general issue with multiple periods in file name?

>  If WordPress is going to block .bz2's, why doesn't it block .zip or .tar.gz?

What do you guess the cause is: bz2 haters or a bug? ;-) My guess is
that it uses a white list and this is a bug.

If you can reproduce these issues and report them that would be breat.

Hope that helps,
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