IE replaces period before file extension with an underscore

[Stu_Rogers]

This is a strange one. A CMS (Moodle) uses a php script to serve downloads, the resulting paths look like…

http://www.example.com/file.php/15/Plant_structure.doc

Everything is working in Firefox, but it seems IE6 doesn't like the path because it contains two file extensions (in the above example .php then .doc), so it replaces the second one with an underscore.

Tried the Moodle support forums with no luck, hoping someone here can shed some light.

The only reference to the problem I can find is here...

[adobe.com...]

[edited by: encyclo at 2:40 pm (utc) on Dec. 15, 2006]
[edit reason] switched to example.com [/edit]

[Stu_Rogers]

Replying to my own post to report that my problem was solved by my host provider. Apparently "mod_gzip" was running on the server. From what I've read, this is an Apache module which compresses documents to reduce bandwidth.

The problem was only affecting Internet Explorer but I don't think the weblink in my first post was relevant.

They have turned off mod_gzip and the downloads are working now.