Bug in IE?

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Frank

Hi all,

I've got this MS Word 2003 document that I save with the filename
"DocumentName..doc". Notice that I've put 2 punctuations in the filename.
The reason I'm showing you this is that by default, when installing Windows,
the user does not see file extensions, so the user does not actually know
that Word adds the extension ".doc" . For the user, the document name is
only "DocumentName." . So in other words, this is a highly actual issue
around the world.

Well, suppose the user wants to publish this document to the Internet. Fair
enough. The user copies the file down to the inetpub\wwwroot catalog, and
the file is online! But when users try to access this document from Internet
Explorer, they will get a 404 - File not found error! IE simply won't open
the document, or more actually; IE won't find it. If you do however rename
the file to "DocumentName.doc", the document comes up.

Is this a bug, or some sort of security issue implanted in IE?
Replies are most welcome :-)

Thanks,

Frank=O)
 
Hi,

It has nothing to do with IE, but with Word.

I put these files on my own server:

test..txt
test..htm
test..doc

They all download correctly, but Word 2003 complains about a missing DLL.

Why do you want two points before the extension? I systematically delete
files with two points before the extensions, as I delete all files with a
double extension.

Kind regards

Hans Le Roy
MS MVP Win/IE-OE
 
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