[Esd-l] Sanitizer somehow left a .doc extension on a document

[John D. Hardin]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Brett Glass wrote:

>   Content-type: application/msword; name="default.txt";
> Content-Disposition: attach; filename="cgiperl_C_XMLresume.6373DEFANGED-doc"
> 
> and the attachment came through with the file name
> 
> cgiperl_C_XMLresume.6373DEFANGED-doc.doc
> 
> Why?

The sanitizer mangles content-type when it mangles the filename, but
since it's stream processing it can't go back and change things it's
already seen.

The .txt file on the content-type line bypassed the content-type
mangling (that particular line was clean), and I bet your mail program
helpfully fixed the .doc filename to match the content-type.

I will fix this in the rewrite.

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