Re: Some thoughts about extensions and mime types

[Alexandre Hautequest <hquest onda com br>]

Olaf Fra;czyk wrote:
> To have secure type-file detection we need File Type Detector (FTD) on
> local computer. It has to be run as root to be able to read all files.
> It has to examine every file and such examination has to be really
> reliable (much more that sniffing today). FTD has to maintain secure
> database. In such database we need: filename (full path), mtime, ctime,
> filetype.

Should we wrote a patch for medusa?! It does some of the job already.

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