A programmer's tale

WordPress upload file type security restrictions

I just posted a little article on my WordPress blog about the new release of my Open all links extension for Thunderbird. I tried to attach a XPI file to the article, but I got the error message: File type does not meet security guidelines.

Via a topic on the WordPress support forum I found Peter Westwood’s pjw-mime-config WordPress Plugin which allows you to manage the mime-types supported by the inline uploader. Adding the file extension xpi with the mime type application/x-xpinstall did the trick.

6 comments October 24th, 2006

Open all links 0.2

The 0.2 release of my Thunderbird extension “Open all links” is awaiting approval at the Mozilla Add-ons site. Beside a bug fix, the possibility to exclude certain links based on a regular expression has been added.

Continue Reading 7 comments October 24th, 2006

Show your appreciation, send me a birthday card

At Sunday the 15th of October I will celebrate my 23d birthday and I would like to receive many greeting cards
If you like my eZ publish extensions, appreciate my involvement in the eZ community or if you just think I’m a cute guy… then surprise me

My address:
Kristof Coomans
Wezel 102
BE-2400 Mol

5 comments October 6th, 2006