File extension of downloaded file changes

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Greetings List,

I run an Intranet site that has some links that allow you to download a PDB
file to view in an external program. On most systems running IE this works
fine. However, we have found a few systems running IE 6 that insist on
downloading the file as a PBD file (not PDB). This same system, with
Firefox, downloads the file just fine as a PDB file.

If the user is aware, and knows to rename the file by changing the file
extension, the file works fine, but unfortunately, not all users are that
savvy.

Any ideas what could be happening here? Any suggestions are most appreciated.

Thanks much,

Grant
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Grant said:
Greetings List,

I run an Intranet site that has some links that allow you to download a PDB
file to view in an external program. On most systems running IE this works
fine. However, we have found a few systems running IE 6 that insist on
downloading the file as a PBD file (not PDB). This same system, with
Firefox, downloads the file just fine as a PDB file.

If the user is aware, and knows to rename the file by changing the file
extension, the file works fine, but unfortunately, not all users are that
savvy.

Any ideas what could be happening here? Any suggestions are most appreciated.
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On a problem machine open a cmd window and enter:

assoc .pbd

and

assoc .pdb

are they the same file type? Then I think you might be getting .pbd
instead of .pdb simply because it's alphabetically lower.

I think a similar thing happens with .jpeg and .jpg

Otherwise I would use Process Monitor (e.g. both FileMon and RegMon)
to try to figure out what is going on.

Thanks much,

Grant
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Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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