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
"Frank" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> 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)
>
>
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