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 Adiya Yeole (AdiyaY34)
Infosys

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AdiyaY34 Member since 2019 5 posts
Infosys
Posted: Jun 3, 2020
Last activity: Jun 4, 2020
Posted: 3 Jun 2020 10:45 EDT
Last activity: 4 Jun 2020 12:23 EDT
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Prevent adding of .docx files which are renamed to .pdf

Guys say I have a word file say abc.docx I rename it to abc.pdf . But when I try to open this file   abc.pdf I will get error . 

Currently my pega is allowing me to attach  files like abc.pdf how to restrict this.

 

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Posted: 4 years ago
Posted: 4 Jun 2020 2:18 EDT
Abhishek Karmakar (karma1)
PEGA
Principal Technical Support Engineer
Pegasystems Inc.
AU

Hi Adiya,

This is a universal behavior not specific to Pega only, When you upload the file the system would validate the file type using the file extension, it will not be able to understand if the file is actually a doc or pdf file. 

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