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<blockquote data-quote="tarchon" data-source="post: 575933" data-attributes="member: 5990">Hmm... maybe I not only intended to point that out to you but also people the net over who think everything must be ZIPed?So you're saying that it's obvious that someone would prevent attaching PDF files, despite what I just said?&nbsp; Irrational restrictions are not obvious.&nbsp; I don't attach files to the board myself though (since it must be a huge resource drain), so I've never encountered that pecularity.&nbsp; The most ironic thing of course is it allows bmp, txt, and rtf, which are some of the most common horribly inefficient file formats, the ones that usually need to be zipped when disk space on the server is tight.But anyway, here's an obvious solution, Mr. Obvious:Change the extention to zip and tell people to save it with &quot;.pdf&quot; in place of the &quot;.zip&quot; or to change the name to end with a &quot;.pdf&quot; afterward.&nbsp; Unless they're using an OS that handles the decompression transparently like Windows XP, it's less hassle for them.&nbsp; And if they've got to knock&nbsp; a .php off the end anyway, it's not any more work.The reason some software .phps it, BTW, it that the file is incorrectly identified as being a PHP file in the MIME type.&nbsp; Some applications prefer to ID files by the extension and some prefer the MIME type.&nbsp;&nbsp; It looks to me like the bulletin board code really has some issues here, but hey I don't want to bum you out with like my knowledge and all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tarchon, post: 575933, member: 5990"] Hmm... maybe I not only intended to point that out to you but also people the net over who think everything must be ZIPed? So you're saying that it's obvious that someone would prevent attaching PDF files, despite what I just said? Irrational restrictions are not obvious. I don't attach files to the board myself though (since it must be a huge resource drain), so I've never encountered that pecularity. The most ironic thing of course is it allows bmp, txt, and rtf, which are some of the most common horribly inefficient file formats, the ones that usually [b]need[/b] to be zipped when disk space on the server is tight. But anyway, here's an obvious solution, Mr. Obvious: Change the extention to zip and tell people to save it with ".pdf" in place of the ".zip" or to change the name to end with a ".pdf" afterward. Unless they're using an OS that handles the decompression transparently like Windows XP, it's less hassle for them. And if they've got to knock a .php off the end anyway, it's not any more work. The reason some software .phps it, BTW, it that the file is incorrectly identified as being a PHP file in the MIME type. Some applications prefer to ID files by the extension and some prefer the MIME type. It looks to me like the bulletin board code really has some issues here, but hey I don't want to bum you out with like my knowledge and all. [/QUOTE]

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