Unix file extensions (Was: make apache2 serve file as htmL...)

[Walter Dnes]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 03:47:27PM +0000, Christopher Browne wrote

> That primarily demonstrates that the Unix community has seen an
> enormous influx of clueless Windows users who don't understand the
> difference and who have added things wrongly to the documentation.

  "Windows lusers" may believe in extensions.  But "l33t H@><0R D00DS"
on Windows know that even Windows doesn't really enforce extensions.
Consider KLEZ, which delivered its payload with a .wav or a .mid
extension.  The MUA affectionately known as "Outhouse Excuse" would
consider it "safe", because of the "extension".  So it passed it on to
the system to "play" the file.  Windows examined the file, noted that it
began with 2 bytes "MZ", and decided to execute it instead.  The rest
was history.

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