MMF file extension upload problem

[hammadtariq]

hello,
I am trying to upload .mmf files on my server running Apache.
It neither uploading there nor on my local machine which is running on IIS.

I have a check before uploading and I am adding following lines into the array of allowed file types, I believe this is the correct mime type for mmf files.

'application/x-smaf' => 'mmf',
'application/vnd.smaf' => 'mmf',

IIS dont support mmf, I have to make the entry in supported mime types, so I do by taking help from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/technologies/iis/maintain/featusability/mimeiis.mspx

But that doesn't made any difference.

Then I uploaded file on the server and thought that it would work there but seems Apache doesn't aware of it either. Any solution?

[HuggieBear]

How about showing us your upload code so we can check it for errors?

Regards
Huggie

[hammadtariq]

well there is no problem with upload procedure as it is quite fairly uploading other extensions like mp3 and amr.

however below is the array where i store mime types of extensions:

$upload_types = array(  'audio/amr' => 'amr',
'audio/wav' => 'wav',
'audio/mpeg' => 'mp3',
'audio/mpeg3' => 'mp3',
'audio/x-mpeg-3' => 'mp3',
'audio/x-wav' => 'wav',
'audio/midi' => 'midi',
'audio/x-mid' => 'mid',
'application/x-smaf' => 'mmf',
'application/vnd.smaf' => 'mmf',

);

Here I get the type:
        $type=$_FILES["upload"]["type"];
and here I check the whether the uploaded types is in array or not:

if(array_key_exists($type, $upload_types))
{
                          }

All other works fine, problem is only with mmf extension.

[HuggieBear]

If you echo out $_FILES['upload']['type'] have you definitely copied down the file type correctly?

Regards
Huggie

[hammadtariq]

[quote author=HuggieBear link=topic=121525.msg499939#msg499939 date=1168283696]
If you echo out $_FILES['upload']['type'] have you definitely copied down the file type correctly?

Regards
Huggie
[/quote]

thanx for the hint Huggie but there comes another problem, on echo it is returning application/octet-stream which is quite ambiguise as I have seen the list which have this mime type and that goes on..means this is same mime type for exe, doc, mmf, lhz, lha etc.

while i m intending to allow only mmf...
is there any solution? how to do it? or why it is behaving like that?

[HuggieBear]

I see what you mean, that's certainly why it's not uploading it.  I think I'll look into this a bit further for you tomorrow when I get to work, as I had a similar problem myself.

Regards
Huggie

[hammadtariq]

[quote author=HuggieBear link=topic=121525.msg500192#msg500192 date=1168301404]
I see what you mean, that's certainly why it's not uploading it.  I think I'll look into this a bit further for you tomorrow when I get to work, as I had a similar problem myself.

Regards
Huggie
[/quote]

hmm well thanx Huggie in advance..
as far as my perception is concerned I think IIS or windows itself is not recognizing this format as this is not so common, I have seen list of support file formats by IIS, refer to my first post, this format has to be added in IIS by going in Control Panel>Administrative Tools>IIS>Default Website>Properties>HTTP Headers>File Types.

i have added there but its still not working. hope that you will find some solution for it as Apache don't seem to work with it either!