On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 20:30 -0500, Pete Holsberg wrote: > There is apparently a security feature in Windows XP Pro SP2 that > causes Internet Explorer to examine the contents of a file you ask it > to open, and make a judgement based on the file's contents rather than > on its file type. > > Thus when you click on myfile.odt on a website, IE will download it as > myfile.ZIP. > > Has anyone found a way to reconfigure either IE or Windows to permit > ODT files to be downloaded as ODT?
The obvious workaround is to use a real Web browser, not an operating system component (IE), to browse the Web. This "security feature" will probably cause at least as many problems as it solves. It would rename for example .tgz denoting a gzipped tar file to .gz, and somewhat randomly rename other files based on what Microsoft thinks something should be renamed based on what is in it. Look at /usr/share/file/magic (on Debian) or its equivalent on other Unix-like operating systems and notice how many entries are in there. Notice how many are commented out. Notice how many of them don't neatly correspond to a given filename extension on Windows (not that they are all that standardized to begin with). -- Shawn K. Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
