[support] Bizarre behavior with uploaded PDF files

[Bob Smither]

On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 20:02 -0500, Chuck D'Antonio wrote:
> Bob,
> 
> 
> I'm too paranoid to click your links with the current PDF exploits
> that are in the wild (no offense), but it sounds like one of three
> things to me:
>      1. Your web server may not have the proper file type information
>         for the PDF file type (in other words, the file mime.types in
>         your web server configuration doesn't have the mapping
>         "application/pdf     pdf" in it).
>      2. The files don't all have a PDF extension on them.
>      3. Your brower somehow lost either the mapping of application/pdf
>         to Acrobat or the mapping of the .pdf extension to Acrobat.

Thanks Chuck - no offense taken.

Correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn't numbers 1 and 3 result in an
error for _any_ pdf file?  As noted in another response, there are only
a few files which give a problem.

As for your number 2 - all files do have the .pdf extension both in the
listed name on the Drupal page and in the underlying file system (a
Linux host on Westhost.com).

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