Files called "global" NOT served by Domino web server (Bug?)

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What I suspect may be a bug:

On a Windows 2000 server add a file called global.txt in your HTML directory. Try and open it with localhost/global.txt - you should see a 404.

Rename this file to globalfoo.txt or whatever and try and access this via the browser. It should be served up okay.

It appears to me that any file with the name global cannot be served. No matter whether it’s a text file or a image or whatever…

I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Can somebody double check this for me or offer an explanation??

Background: My website codestore.net has a CSS file called global.css. Recently I upgraded to R6. All is okay on the live Linux server but my home Windows machine is having none of it!

Jake

http://www.codestore.net

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Subject: Files called “global” NOT served by Domino web server (Bug?)

This a problem with R5 as well, only on Win2000, and not NT or UNIX. It will not be fixed. Apparently Windows has a function called QueryDosDevice which identifies certain files as dos devices which could hang the server and be a DenialOfService attack. Because the prefix “global” is used, Domino will not serve the file because of the results of the function.

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Subject: Files called “global” NOT served by Domino web server (Bug?)

Same here for a 6.0.1 CF1 on W2K, but works on Linux.Probably “global” is reserved somehow…

Oliver Regelmann