[Esa-l] Mangled extentions

[John D. Hardin]

On 26 Jul 2000, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:

> I just did a diff between 1.111 and 1.115.  In a couple of places,
> MANGLED_EXTENTIONS has been been replaced with a hard-coded subset
> of that variable.  What is the reasoning behind this?

You're actually seeing a reordering of the code. Having the scanner
call after the poisoning/mangling was a bad idea - mangling the
attachment name made the sanitizer think it wasn't a document file.

Now the scanning occurs first.

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