none of that means anything to 99% of the users out there in the world.
the truth is that phpbb should never have adopted this way of storing the files.
it makes no sense at all to remove the extensions from them. any ftp program set on auto will do the same thing. as far as I know, the auto setting in any ftp program looks at file extensions to make it's choice of whether to download in ascii or binary. that is the standard and has been forever.
and contrary to what some believe, binary is not good for all files any more than ascii is .
binary should be reserved for images, and exe and zip etc. all text based files like php, html,cfg, etc.
should be transferred in ascii.
as we have all seen over the years, if a file is transferred in the wrong form then it can be corrupted in the process.
as we have seen here since the change was made to remove all extensions from attachments, it corrupts the image and other types of files almost 100% of the time. the only reason we don't hear about it more often is because most people never have the need to restore that backup they made of those attachments so they never know that they are no longer any good.
oh well, there I go again;
robert
EDIT: After having read through that bug report to filezilla, I do agree that it should be set to "as is" by default.
however, since it is not and I doubt that many ftp programs even have that option, I still think the files should have the extensions left on them.
robert