Octet-Stream files

[Dave]

Grrrr!
Wunce upon a time, no so long ago, local council documents were downloaded
as .pdf but now they are all Octet-Stream with no dot suffix, which means
they could be absolutely anything.

Example, download a document from the council planning web site now and it
arrives at the browser as 1005 and that's it.

Anyone have any idea why this pointless change has been made?

Thanks :-)
Dave


I have asked at the local planning office and they don't understand, and
just parrot something about it being a government requirement since
whenever...

I have also searched online and can't find anything useful...

Obviously in this case I know what the 1005 file actually is... A pdf, but
instead of it opening in my Browser, I'm forced to download it, add a .pdf
suffix then load it into a PDF reader.

It gets worse... One particular LG document wouldn't open with the suffix
I gave it, so I had to do the usual... Put the file in a text editor and
look at the header to work out what it was.

Not amusing or an efficient use of time when working with a number of
documents.

D.

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Dave Triffid

[charles]

I assume, since it's planning, you are referring to your District Council.
Contact your ward Councillor.

I've just looked at my local council - still pdfs.


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