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TamedTech

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Morning Guys,

Just stumbled accross this and thought i'd see whether anyone knows what it is.

This is an ISP i used to use a while back, and i notice that the 'Domains' section of thier site uses a .hot extension.

Any ideas what this is?


Rob
 
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At a guess, I'd say they'll either be redirecting you to another page or that they've setup their webserver to process that file extension like a standard HTML file.


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I think the key here lies not in the server (which probably does nothing more with this extension than serve it as a generic file {same as .html, .htm, .js, .doc, .pdf, .mp3, .txt etc.}), but in the client browser which, having received no previous instruction (i.e. no content-type in a link or object tag), would start reading the file to see if it has it's own content-type descriptor, in this case:
domains.hot said:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
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I haven't tested this theory, but I'm betting you could do that with other extensions too. (like, say .robherc or .TamedTech ... might prove an interesting concept to test)




I hope this helps;
Rob Hercules
 
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The standard .HOT extension is a Mosaic Internet address.

It could also be their attempt at a custom file type, it could be an attempt at security through obscurity.

Do not ever trust the file extension shown to the user because in a lot of times it is fake. We have a few sites where they are parsing one file type as another and the reason is because we switched from one programming language to another and keeping the exact same links stops any problems with incoming links or search engines.

I haven't tested this theory, but I'm betting you could do that with other extensions too. (like, say .robherc or .TamedTech ... might prove an interesting concept to test)
Click to expand...

The content-type will still be sent to the browser, but the browser would treat the file based on the content-type, no matter what extension it was.

Hope this helps

Wullie

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Execlent stuff thanks guys, i suspected as much ... it's quite an interesting touch i guess. might have to play around with the idea.

Rob
 
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