diff --git a/system/libraries/Upload.php b/system/libraries/Upload.php
index 7510449..3227c37 100644
--- a/system/libraries/Upload.php
+++ b/system/libraries/Upload.php
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@
 		$this->file_name = $this->_prep_filename($_FILES[$field]['name']);
 		$this->file_size = $_FILES[$field]['size'];		
 		$this->file_type = preg_replace("/^(.+?);.*$/", "\\1", $_FILES[$field]['type']);
-		$this->file_type = trim(stripslashes($this->file_type), '"');
+		$this->file_type = strtolower(trim(stripslashes($this->file_type), '"'));
 		$this->file_ext	 = $this->get_extension($_FILES[$field]['name']);
 		
 		// Convert the file size to kilobytes
diff --git a/user_guide/changelog.html b/user_guide/changelog.html
index 21b60ac..6eb0360 100644
--- a/user_guide/changelog.html
+++ b/user_guide/changelog.html
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@
 			<li>Added a <kbd>$xss_clean</kbd> class variable to the XMLRPC library, enabling control over the use of the Security library's <kbd>xss_clean()</kbd> method.</li>
 			<li>Added a <kbd>download()</kbd> method to the <a href="libraries/ftp.html">FTP library</a></li>
 			<li>Changed <kbd>do_xss_clean()</kbd> to return FALSE if the uploaded file fails XSS checks.</li> 
+			<li>Added stripslashes() and trim()ing of double quotes from $_FILES type value to standardize input.</li>
 		</ul>
 	</li>
 	<li>Database