Re: (error) @ flashplugin-nonfree

[Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>]

Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> writes:

> On Sat 17 Dec 2016 at 20:28:21 +0100, Erwan David wrote:
>
> > opening a binary file in an unknown format is always a bad idea.
>
> Really? What binary file is in the mail?

The MIME content-type specified for that attachment is
“application/octet-stream”. That explicitly means a stream of bytes,
in an opaque format.

Whether that specification is correct can only be determined by opening
the content; exactly the mistake Erwan is warning against.

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Ben Finney