Uploader - file types to exclude

[Colin Clark]

Cindy,

Good suggestion. We'll file a feature request for this. Hopefully our  
underlying upload engine, SWFUpload, will support something like this.

Colin

On 26-Jun-09, at 3:48 PM, Cindy Qi Li wrote:

> Aaron, Colin and Justin, thanks a lot for your help. Fluid file  
> uploader in ATutor has been successfully upgraded to 1.1.
>
> Another thought: one feature that Fluid may consider to add in is  
> the file types to be excluded from the uploader. File uploader  
> already supports the file types that can be uploaded by setting the  
> uploadManager option "fileTypes". When this option is set, only the  
> given file types are listed in the popup OS file dialog.
>
> In ATutor, administrators can define a list of file types that are  
> NOT allowed to be uploaded into ATutor. For example, the files with  
> extension "exe" or "php" or "bat" are forbidden as they have  
> potential to ruin the system. It would be nice that Fluid can  
> support something like "fileTypesToExclude", which could either stop  
> the file types being listed in file dialog, or, when they are  
> selected in dialog and go into queue, show an error like "illegal  
> file type" besides those files.

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Colin Clark
Technical Lead, Fluid Project
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto
http://fluidproject.org