ARRGGHH!!! HTML and ZIP files, please!

[reapersaurus]

I brought this up awhile back, and the need for adding these types of files in attachments has slapped me once again!

In a thread going on right now in General Discussion about half-orcs, I would love to attach a previous thread that I believe any poster in that thread would like to read (from 10 months ago).

So I zipped up the HTML threads and tried to post.
And of course it didn't work.
Now WHY again can't we add HTML files, but we can add macro-laden Word files?

I seem to remember what was mentioned previously was vague worries about disk useage and dangerous content that can be put in HTML files, and I don't understand either worry.

Could we please add those 2 (or just one would be fine) file types to the attachment list?
What do you guys think?
Any reason not to be able to attach previous threads to enhance a current discussion?

 

[Psionicist]

1) Rename file blah.zip to blah.txt
2) Upload file blah.txt
3) Write a note "rename blah.txt to blah.zip"
4) User downloads blah.txt, renames it to blah.zip
5) And there you have it.

 

[reapersaurus]

hmm... interesting idea, but a little sneaky for my preference.

It would work, but I'd rather have those 2 file types added if there's no real reason not to allow them.

 

[Psionicist]

With a little luck, some browsers might process normal txt files as html documents, so they are viewable from your browser. Lets try it.

 

[CRGreathouse]

With a little luck, some browsers might process normal txt files as html documents, so they are viewable from your browser. Lets try it.

No such luck on IE 6.0

 

[reapersaurus]

Morrus?

 

[bondetamp]

No such luck on IE 6.0

How about this one?

test.txt

 

[Morrus]

The problem with that is that it makes it very easy for some to construct an entire website consisting solely of html attachments (each has a URL, so it would be painfully easy to do); they can even use the the server as a storage space for .zip files.

 

[CRGreathouse]

How about this one?

test.txt

Yes, actually, that worked. I guess the content declaration overrides the file extention.

 

[Psionicist]

Yes, actually, that worked. I guess the content declaration overrides the file extention.

Yes, as I already proved in my second post...