"File Not Found" Error Message When You Try to Open ftp://servername/directoryname/file.txt;type=a

When you try to open the following Uniform Resource Locator (URL), you may receive a "file not found" error message:

The software that parses the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) URL does not strip ;type=a when passing the file name to the function that opens the remote file.

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Internet Explorer version 5.01. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Internet Explorer version 5.01 Service Pack 2.