Specifications

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Learn how to enable Quick Look for specic le types.
Quick Look allows users to preview a le without downloading the le. To use
Quick Look, click the eye button next to attachments.
When a le is attached to a wiki or blog page, the wiki server checks to see if the le
type is in the allowed whitelist for Quick Look les. If the le type is allowed and is
something that can be represented as a series of images (such as a Pages document,
a PDF, or a Keynote presentation), the wiki server creates an image for each page in
the le. When the user uses Quick Look, he or she views the series of images created
by the wiki server, not the le.
The built-in whitelist includes all le types that have Quick Look support by default
in Mac OS X. It doesn’t include potentially harmful le types. To add le types that are
not included in the whitelist, such as third-party application le types, add them to the
whitelist.
WARNING: Some le types can compromise your server’s security and integrity,
or harm users who preview les. Make sure you thoroughly test the le types you
enable and review potential security issues.
About the Whitelist
The Quick Look whitelist is located at /etc/wikid/quicklook.conf.
By default, it supports the following le extensions:
File Extension
bmp
doc
docx
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Allowing Specic File Types for
Quick Look