Posted by Ben on 11/23/05 20:45

Curt Zirzow wrote:

> You should really consider using the fileinfo extension, or mabey
> even http://php.net/getimagesize. The ['type'] information
> can't be trusted to be what it says it is.

Any reason why no one is suggesting the use of mime_content_type?
http://ca.php.net/mime_content_type

It seems to work well for me and there's no need to trust whatever the
browser claims a file is or having to worry about different browsers
inconsistently describing a mime type.

- Ben

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