Unable to upload a PDF: Internet Explorer would detect it as "text/html"
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	Feb 7 2022, 5:05 PM

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I am trying to re-upload https://campuspubs.library.caltech.edu/2243/1/1976.pdf to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Big_T_1976.pdf to fix the PDF. But when doing a chunked upload using https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js, I get at one point an error:

Cannot upload this file because Internet Explorer would detect it as "text/html", which is a disallowed and potentially dangerous file type.

So how can I upload this PDF?

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I fixed the issue by using a chunk of different size. I think the check should be done only on the first chunk, not on later chunks, because it seems it can have false positives based on how upload is chunked.

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