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[Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Eric Persson wrote:

> Using the type thats in $_FILES is generally a bad idea, since its set
> by the browser, and different browsers set different types for the same
> file. I usually use the *nix program file program to determine the
> filetype, then you know that it will always return the same typ for the
> same type of files.

Even better, use the mime-magic extension:

http://www.php.net/mime-magic

-adam

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