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by Vanessa Williams.
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I recently discovered that Internet Explorer 6+ reports all jpeg images as having the content type image/pjpeg, thus breaking every web application that allows the uploading of files and checks for certain allowed mime types (typically image/gif|jpeg|png). Officially, there is no image/pjpeg mime type. It’s just made up. It adds no value. It is a [...]