MIME type error in file upload
How Do I?
Hello,
I became moderator of the website, which is made by the ExpressionEngine 1.6.9. Now I want to upload a document in .pdf format, but I get the following error: “The file you are attempting to upload has invalid content for its MIME type.”
I spoke with administrators of this website, which says that he doens’t have trouble with that. He try to upload the same .pdf document as I, and he managed to do that.
I try also with different browsers…
Why can’t I upload .pdf documents? Thank you for your help.
Sounds like you are in a non-Super Admin member group, in which case file uploads are security screened. Since PDFs are rendered by the browser, they are screened for certain tags and patterns that could be a sign of malicious intent. In ExpressionEngine v1, your site administrator can either add your member id to a xss_clean_member_exception or group id to a xss_clean_member_group_exception config override if they want to whitelist you from those checks.
Side Note: We highly encourage your site administrators to upgrade. Version 1 has not been supported for many years, and in fact v2 is already a legacy product.