Internet Explorer removes .exe extension from download when followed by URL parameters -
I am now serving files from Amazon S3, and I generate a secure URL using API. The .exe files downloading in IE works great everywhere except I have tested it on IE 8 and 7.
If you are running local webserver, you can test by putting Notepad.x in your web root. (Or equivalent) Now try?
This file should be saved as a notepad without any detail. Is this a 'feature' because it is nothing goggle? Thanks for the full number of IE extensions, you can not find anything on the file extension.
In addition to this, if the file has many names beside it, sometimes it is added [1] or [] at the end.
Any thoughts? Docks on this awesome behavior? It seems that it should be a security feature, but I have not yet got any option to disable it.
And as always, thank you. Tim
Here's a long story, but simple action is to:
As for the previous [1] or whatnot, no, there really is nothing that you can do about if the user is to download it before the URL < / P>
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