('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) Guys, I noticed that when you request a long url using IE in wither windows 2000 or windows XP for example: http://www.somehost.com/exisingfile.htm? aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa[about 256 times or so], the webpage takes on a different name when saving to disk such as QUFOU28S.htm . This also happens when you attemp to download a file with a long url ie: .gif? aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa etc,.... Also, the more aaaaaa's that are appended, the different the response is. My questions are : 1.) Is this a small hashing functionality built into windows to prevent long filenames from being downloaded and causing problems. or 2.) Is it a screw up in windows? Possibly a buffer overflow?. I have noticed that this type of naming is used for some temprorary files. What is going on. RFCP (Request for comments please) :-) Regards, Paul.
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