[Esd-l] Binary file problems in sanitizer

[John D. Hardin]

On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Thomas Nyman wrote:

> document, but it also seems to change the mime type from binary to
> text with the result that I cant open the word document even after
> I change the "defanged-name". Can anyone explain why this is and
> if I can do something about it?

That was a change made to the last version of the sanitizer in an
attempt to bypass Windows' magic scanning for APPLICATION/OCTET-STREAM
MIME types. Apparently it was a bad idea, since mailers want to treat
the application as text, and alter the file as it is saved.

> I simply want sanitizer to defang the document so you have to make
> a filename change before opening it, but I dont want to corrupt
> the file, which seems to be the case now.

Try the development snapshot, it now mangles to APPLICATION/DEFANGED.
Let me know if you have further problems.

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