Feature Request: REALLY disallow BMP attachments

[smercurio_fc]

I know this has come up before, and a previous request basically implement a simple mechanism that disallowed uploading of files that had a .bmp extension. Well, that doesn't really work since people simply rename the file to get past this trivial filter. I don't know if Lithium can do this, but propose a REAL filter that can check the file being uploaded. It's easy enough to detect a BMP. It's part of the file spec. If it sees someone is trying to sneak in a BMP, it drops the upload.

Of course, I may be asking too much, given that Lithium can't seem to fix the editor. 

[RavensFan]

Here's another one.

Often times NI employees will post a link to a knowledge base article, and it will be part of the ae. domain.  Only problem is that it only means something internally to NI and any one external like the users to this forum get an error message.  When those links get posted, there will be one or more messages about it not working, then finally the application engineer will get on and post the correct link.  What can we do to make sure that the application engineer posts the publicly valid link to begin with?

Also, any way to disallow links that point to someone's C:\ drive?  How many times do we get the inserted image that points to a image file on someone's hard drive rather than a valid internet location?  Or recently, I'll see images that are linked to the temporary preview location on the forums website.  One step better than the hard drive, but once the message is finally submitted, the temp location is wiped clean as the message now has a permanent ID number.

Message Edited by Ravens Fan on 02-18-2009 04:33 PM

[smercurio_fc]

Here's another 2.3MB BMP uploaded by changing the file extension.

Message Edited by smercurio_fc on 02-23-2009 09:53 AM

[Laura F.]

I've submitted the request about the BMP files and links to user's C: drives.

Thanks,

Laura
Web Support & Operations
National Instruments

[smercurio_fc]

Thank you, Laura.

[altenbach]

We still keep seing things like this.

Two 4MB bmp images (8MB total!) camouflaged as jpg. If somebody is on dialup and want to look at that post, it will take a very long time.