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Please support .zip attachments

The forum allows .z, .7z, but does not allow .zip attachments.

Please fix.

JW

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Amelie ACKERMANN
Community manager
Community manager

Hi @waclawek.jan,

I understand your point. After one year of being on the new platform, we can bring up the topic of .zip files again with the security team. However, I cannot give any promises that their assessment of the topic has changed. I will let you know if there is any news.

Best,

Amelie

Andrew Neil
Evangelist III

@waclawek.jan wrote:

The forum allows .z, .7z, but does not allow .zip attachments.


As a workaround, I think you can rename a .zip to  .z or .7z - and the forum won't notice!

:face_with_rolling_eyes:

 


@waclawek.jan wrote:

Please fix.


Yes - please fix!

After all, ST is happy enough to distribute its stuff to us as .zip !

I'm struggling to understand the "security" concern here. The files are inert, you can scan the content for things you don't want, or don't know how to decode/unpack. It's the same format used for .DOCX / .XLSX, so if I can hide and stash things in those surely those amount to the same risk?

Is the concern that bad actors might cache content you don't want to be caught hosting here?

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Laurids_PETERSEN
Community manager
Community manager

Hello @waclawek.jan and all,

I'm happy to let you know that .zip files are now allowed in the community.

Best regards,
Laurids