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Anon

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Junior
Registered: 10/18/06
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I have a fresh install of GL 1.4.0sr 5-1 and am trying to import users.

I have followed the instructions and prepared a tab delimited file .txt with full name, username and email address (headings as stated on the import page user.php?mode=importform) but when I press import, it come up with the following error:



Mime type, application/octet-stream, or extension of user_import_file.txt not in list of allowed types.


Please can anyone advise how to correct this?

Many thanks

Anon
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Anon

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Registered: 10/18/06
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I think that I have found the problem having read a response from Dirk in 2003 (http://www.geeklog.net/forum/viewtopic.php?forum=3&showtopic=18489). I think there is a bug in the script.

In admin/user.php there is the line


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$upload->setAllowedMimeTypes (array ('text/plain' => '.txt'));
 

I changed it to

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$upload->setAllowedMimeTypes(array('text/plain'=>'.txt'));
 


The difference is a space between Types and (array

Hope this helps someone else.

Many thanks

Anon
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Dirk

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That space surely didn't make the difference ...

From the error above, it's obvious that your browser sent the file as a binary file ("Mime type, application/octet-stream") instead of a text file. You must have done something differently when you did it the second time.

bye, Dirk
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