Error message for file with multiple extensions, with one of them blacklisted, is confusing.
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	• bzimport
	Jan 19 2011, 8:51 PM

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Author: dayson

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If I upload a file with the name 'TextmeEncryption.php.zip' I get the following error message.

".zip" is not a permitted file type. Permitted file types are png, gif, jpg, jpeg, zip.

I have also added the following to my list LocalSettings.php

$wgFileExtensions[] = 'zip';
$wgVerifyMimeType = false; //disable mime type verification

If I rename the file to 'TextmeEncryption_php.zip', it works fine!

But this shouldn't be the expected behavior. The first file name used is absolutely appropriate too (Both in terms of naming and mime-type).

Version: 1.16.x
Severity: normal

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Reference: bz26809

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 11:15 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Uploading.

• bzimport set Reference to bz26809.

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• bzimport created this task.Jan 19 2011, 8:51 PM

As Platonides pointed out in irc, this is intentional behaviour due to Apache taking secondary extenions sometimes into account.

However, the error message should be better. For a file like the reporter's above (foo.php.zip), we detect that the .php is blacklisted, so output the bad filetype message, but when outputting that message, we use the final extension in it (.zip), which is confusing to the user.

Bryan.TongMinh wrote:

Fixed in r80766.

• Gilles added a project: Multimedia.Dec 4 2014, 10:26 AM

• Gilles raised the priority of this task from Medium to Unbreak Now!.Dec 4 2014, 10:29 AM

• Gilles moved this task from Untriaged to Done on the Multimedia board.

• Gilles lowered the priority of this task from Unbreak Now! to Medium.Dec 4 2014, 11:21 AM

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