# Can't Upload non image file
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cant-upload-non-image-file/72
**Category:** Site Feedback
**Created:** [June 4, 2018, 11:40am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cant-upload-non-image-file/72 "2018-06-04T11:40:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2018, 11:40am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cant-upload-non-image-file/72/1 "2018-06-04T11:40:44Z")
It is impossible to upload and share a non image file in a topic.
This is a big issue in my opinion.
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2018, 1:05pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cant-upload-non-image-file/72/2 "2018-06-04T13:05:46Z")
I have enabled upload of any file type. There may be security implications to doing this, though I haven’t found any discussions about what kinds of files we should prevent from being uploaded.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2018, 1:08pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cant-upload-non-image-file/72/3 "2018-06-04T13:08:32Z")
Great, thanks. regarding security issue, I could have renamed any kind of executable file and uploaded it as a png anyway, so it does not change much imho.
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2018, 1:21pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cant-upload-non-image-file/72/4 "2018-06-04T13:21:42Z")
True, though I would be more concerned about the web server executing, say, a Ruby (.rb) file someone uploads that executes some malicious code on the server side. Thoughts, @Jake_Stookey?