-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > If you rename a GIF or JPG file to TXT, IE > can´t open it, it just stares and finishes cancelling. > So IE can´t open TXTs files wich start with: > > GIF89a --->for gif files > for jpgs i am not sure I've tested this with IE 5.5 SP1 + Q299618. Here are the results: Two randomly chosen gif and jpg images were renamed to gif.txt and jpg.txt respectivly. TEST 1. Trying to open images with File -> Open my notepad.exe is spawned and displays the "content" of the images. TEST 2. Created a test.html document with links to the images: <HTML> <BODY> <A HREF="gif.txt">GIF</A> <A HREF="jpg.txt">JPEG</A> </BODY> </HTML> The "content" of the images were sucessfully displayed in the IE window. TEST 3. Used the <IMG> tag to embed the images in the html page: <HTML> <BODY> <IMG SRC="gif.txt"> <IMG SRC="jpg.txt"> </BODY> </HTML> Image placeholders were shown, but no images (wrong MIME type according to extension). TEST 4. Renaming test.gif -> test.html and opening it in IE is displaying parts of the image "content": GIF89aL9³ÿÿÿÿÀÀÀ óó+}|??/E; MY CONCLUSION: I couldn't reproduce what you experienced in IE 5.0, so I suppose that this issue has been corrected by Microsoft (either in 5.5 or 5.5 SP1). Thnx for your time :) Patrik Birgersson # Security is not a product - it is a process # -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.0 iQA/AwUBO2vCqB+A7LF3JdzkEQKK6ACcDTHZLXosNtUHQ39dlabX8cgtSJ0AoP68 7il970ToA4MPKo2vMLSXvSbd =7j5A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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