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[...] is not correctly zipped then it is not possible to programmatically detect the mimetype of the ODF file. And if the mimetype check fails, Officeshots (and possibly other applications) will refuse the [...]

[...] problem with file type and MIME type detection of OpenDocument files. When a user uploads an ODF file to Officeshots I want to determine the MIME type myself using the PHP Fileinfo extension. [...]

[...] file and report the MIME type as ODF file. On Linux, the PHP Fileinfo extension relies on the magic file that is provided by the file package. The magic file contains a series of tests that can [...]

[...] easy. ClamAV is open source, well supported, actively maintained and comes pre-packaged for Debian Lenny which we use for the Officeshots servers. Finding a PHP library to interact with ClamAV proved [...]

[...] replacing libdb with memcached but unfortunately gnutls is built without memcached support on Debian Lenny. [...]

[...] no DNS cache needs to be updated. We will be upgrading our base platform from Debian Etch to Debian Lenny during the move. I will update this post once the move has been completed. Update: The server [...]

[...] skip to the fix directly. The problem with magic First off, some tests. I ran these tests on Debian Lenny, but I have seen other distributions as well that have incomplete file magic support for [...]

[...] ;. It should be one of the ODF mimetypes. You can guess what happens when you don't zip the mimetype file first: The string "mimetype" won't be at the right offset. And if you accidentally [...]

[...] I have just released a new feature for Officeshots: The ODF anonymiser. The ODF Anonymiser tries to make your document completely anonymous while maintaining it's overall structure. [...]

[...] I am happy to announce an exciting new feature for Officeshots: Integrated ODF validators. Every ODF document that is uploaded is run through several different ODF validators. If the [...]

[...] . They only check the contents. In this article I will show you how you can properly zip your ODF files, but before I do that I will show you the problem in detail. Detecting mimetypes Linux and other [...]

[...] extension. Windows user who do not have any ODF supporting applications installed will report ODF files as application/zip which is of no use to me. In addition, a malicious user could attempt to [...]

[...] The subversion server is down. There is a problem with mod_gnutls that causes Apache to use 100% CPU and never [...]

[...] One of the great advantages of the OpenDocument format is that it is simply a zip file. You can unzip it with any archiver and take a look at the [...]

[...] , but I have seen other distributions as well that have incomplete file magic support for OpenDocument Format. Here is what I get when I test an odt file using the file command. So far, so good. Both [...]

One of the great advantages of the OpenDocument format is that it is simply a zip file. You can unzip it with any archiver and take a look at the cont [...]

[...] uploaded is run through several different ODF validators. If the converted documents are also ODF documents (when you are testing ODF round trips) then those results are also passed through these ODF [...]