laravel 5.1 error in validating doc docx type file

Question

Hi i am facing a docx type validation problem. I tried

$validator = Validator::make($request->all(), [
            'resume'   => 'mimes:doc,pdf,docx'
        ]);

It will upload pdf file with no error but whenever i try to upload docx files it gives validation error 'must be a file of type: doc, pdf, docx'
any idea

Solution 1

thanks solved it by allowing zip

$validator = Validator::make($request->all(), [
            'resume'   => 'mimes:doc,pdf,docx,zip'
        ]);

this is because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML

Solution 2

In Laravel 5.6.3., I have solved this using dot(.) sign:

$request->validate([
    'file.*' => 'required|file|max:5000|mimes:pdf,docx,doc',
]);

Comments

[shock_gone_wild]

What ist your result if you do a dd($request->file('resume')->getMimeType());

[sanu]

it shows "application/zip surprised

[Dave Carruthers]

As far as I can tell this allows fake files to pass validation. for example, renaming a .txt file to .pdf passes the validation, remove the dot * and it fails as expected.