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Problems with files with out file extensions

Yesterday, I upgrade a server that had Plesk 2.0, to 5.0.5. Along with someother system software. With this one of the people that are on the server started experiencing problems with their ebay pictures. I looked at them and I saw they had no file extensions, for example (http://www.domain.com/image) instead of (http://www.domain.com/image.jpg). I asked him about this and he said they were working that way the night before, and said he was linking to the files that way for months. I was wondering if anyone knew of a fix for this, or why it was working and now why it is not. Or if anyone has any insight at all. Thank You.

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bummerlord

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RomikQ

You can use the 'file' utility to identify the mime-type of a file. So you would call
$file <file>
And based on the output(image/jpg for a jpg, image/gif for a gif, etc...) you can rename <file> back to the original extension.
if the above command fails, you can try the other modes(like using the magic number for identification) of file(they're all listed in the manual(run "man file")

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