Re: [Web Security] File Upload Virus Scanning

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Ok, agree, sensitive information requires encryption, thanks for the clarification.
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-----Original Message-----
From: 0x4150 <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 17:31:37 
To: Danux<[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [WEB SECURITY] [Web Security] File Upload Virus Scanning
Danux,

The transfer (up and down) will have to be HTTPS as the file contains
sensitive information.

> Apart from Content-type header in the response, also make sure to use
> HTTP instead of HTTPS when sending the file to the end user, this way,
> there is a change that another security control like IDS/IPS can catch
> the file while flowing back to the end user through the network.

Robert,

Thanks for that awesome explanation! +1 Kudos

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