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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Include fileinfo in core
From: kevin@oceania.net (Kevin Waterson)

This one time, at band camp, Antony Dovgal <antony@zend.com> wrote:


> While mime_magic is deprecated, it does not mean it cannot be used.
> So there certainly is a way to do it without PECL.
Currently, but it will be moved sometime in the future.

> Anyone capable of installing core extension, is capable of installing an extension from PECL, 
> in most cases it's as easy as `pecl install <name>`.
Not everybody has access to this, particularly in a mutliple hosting environment.

> I can't see how moving filepro into core would help those who cannot enable it anyway.

It would be nice to be able to verify/validate file types by mimetype with a simple core function
that is available on all platforms. If the only way of doing this is in PECL then portablity
is lost and so is any surity of what type of file an uploaded file may be, without resorting to hacks.

Kevin


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