[pacman-dev] Mime-type filtering?

[Aaron Griffin]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Dan McGee<dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Aaron Griffin<aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Xavier<shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Dan McGee<dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 2009/3/23 Samed Beyribey <ras0ir at eventualis.org>:
>>>>>>> Well i just noticed that, (probably) mailman rejects my attachment (it
>>>>>>> was 9.5k)
>>>>>>> so i've put it on my web site:
>>>>>>> http://eventualis.org/pacman/0001-fixed-typos-and-alignment-problem-in-Turkish-transla.patch.gz
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is my last mail about this patch, again, i feel so sorry.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This isn't your fault.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Aaron, do we not allow gzipped and bzipped files through?
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess not. What's the mime-type for these? Considering mailman uses
>>>>> a whitelist, would anyone be able to construct a decent list that
>>>>> covers pretty much all attachment types we'd want?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for changing the subject, btw. Here is a simple look at that
>>>> patch, gzipped and additionally unzipped and converted to bzip2.
>>>>
>>>> dmcgee at galway /tmp
>>>> $ file --mime-type patch.gz
>>>> patch.gz: application/x-gzip
>>>>
>>>> dmcgee at galway /tmp
>>>> $ file --mime-type patch.bz2
>>>> patch.bz2: application/x-bzip2
>>>
>>>
>>> bump :)
>>
>> Allowed attachments:
>> multipart/mixed
>> multipart/alternative
>> message/rfc822
>> text/plain
>> multipart/signed
>> application/pgp-signature
>> application/octet-stream
>> application/x-tar
>> application/x-tgz
>> application/x-gzip
>> application/x-bzip-compressed-tar
>> application/x-bzip2
>
> As an FYI, I added the last 5 this morning, but for this list (as
> opposed to the arch-* lists), we can probably allow everything through
> as I haven't seen rampant abuse.

Done. Lets see how this works