Is it possible to accidentally overwrite files of others?
Posted: 02 May 2018 09:07
Yesterday I called the page Frisch gesungen (Friedrich Silcher) and tried to view the PDF file of the edition of Juliane Claudi, CPDL #19903. Instead I got to see the PDF file of CPDL #48364.
A check of the source code shows that the file names are very similar, though not quite the same:
[*]{{CPDLno | 48364}} [[Media:Silcher_Frisch_gesungen.pdf|{{pdf}}]]
[*]{{CPDLno | 19903}} [[Media:Silcher Frisch gesungen.pdf|{{pdf}}]]
Are the spaces possibly automatically replaced by underscores?
Is it possible to overwrite or overlay a file of another user?
So far, when uploading files I never paid any attention, if the file name already exists. I have relied on that, if necessary, I would possibly get an appropriate error message.
Do I always have to check in advance whether a file with the same or a similar name already exists? And how is that to be done?
A request to the administrators: Please make Juliane Claudi's PDF file accessible again.
A check of the source code shows that the file names are very similar, though not quite the same:
[*]{{CPDLno | 48364}} [[Media:Silcher_Frisch_gesungen.pdf|{{pdf}}]]
[*]{{CPDLno | 19903}} [[Media:Silcher Frisch gesungen.pdf|{{pdf}}]]
Are the spaces possibly automatically replaced by underscores?
Is it possible to overwrite or overlay a file of another user?
So far, when uploading files I never paid any attention, if the file name already exists. I have relied on that, if necessary, I would possibly get an appropriate error message.
Do I always have to check in advance whether a file with the same or a similar name already exists? And how is that to be done?
A request to the administrators: Please make Juliane Claudi's PDF file accessible again.