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[Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have added application/octet-stream to the allowed content types as a
work-around for now.

Lars

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Jason Pickering <
jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I tried with Opera and it worked. Seems to be either  a bug or perhaps
> malware that is causing this.
>
> Does not seem to be a bug with DHIS2 though, so I will not file a bug
> report I guess. However, it is a problem that we need to figure out how to
> resolve.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Jo Størset <storset@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> Den 30. mars 2010 kl. 21.22 skrev Jason Pickering:
>>
>> Yeah, I figured this out actually after I had done it. Oh well, it was
>> worth a try.
>>
>> This seems like a major limitation really, well, at least when it comes to
>> importing DHIS 1.4 XML zip files. Would it be possible simply to add the
>> application/octet-stream as an acceptable type?
>>
>> Using some Java applet might be a way to accomplish 1 and 2. 3 seems
>> pretty dubious. :)
>>
>>  I mean, if the file is bogus, DHIS2 should simply just ignore it and
>> trash the file right?
>>
>>
>> I don't think it's a common problem, most clients should be reporting
>> correctly for standard files and this is the first time we have encountered
>> such a problem. Does anybody else know of any similar problems with dhis?
>>
>> It should be possible to work around the problem in your case, if it is
>> what I suspect. As you say, it has been working before. Import should work
>> in most browsers, if you could try another one it would help. If you could
>> use something like the live http header plugin [1] to log the POST request
>> being sent, it would also verify what content-type firefox sends.
>>
>> If we accept application/octet-stream, I think we might as well drop the
>> content type checking. And I guess that should work fine. Notice that we
>> currently more or less have option 3 (with 1 in addition), so 3 might not be
>> *that* dubious :) Bob has been talking about switching to 2, I guess since
>> sdmx-hd might come with different envelope formats (i.e. xml, zip, gzip).
>>
>> I'm leaving on easter break tomorrow, and Lars/Bob seem to have already
>> left. So I guess it will have to wait a couple of days.
>>
>> Jo
>>
>> [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3829
>>
>>
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