Is it possible.....

to change a file name and how it is viewed - on download

[peaches]

Is it possible to download a file and change the name of it and how it is viewed. If so please explain! Can you change it to notepad, If so how and how do you get it back to the original format?

[korkus2000]

what format? are they propietary codecs? If it is basically a text file or flat file like txt, htm, asp, jsp then yes. Word, jpg, and other stuff like that would be more tricky.

Depends on the format.

[Black Knight]

Hi peaches. Something tells me this relates to a well-known tactic used in the adult industry to host 'forbidden' files such as avi and mpg files on free hosts hidden as things such as text files, etc.

The trick is usually accomplished using CGI or other server-side scripting so that when the user requests the file (uploaded as something like myfile.txt) it is automatically downloaded as the real file type (e.g. myfile.avi). The scripts, rather like the ones that protect images, are available commercially if you search hard enough.

Ammon Johns