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This refers to the default naming convention for a Microsoft Access database file. In early web apps, this file often lived in a folder named db and was named main.mdb .
(IIS) to deny all web requests to files with database extensions. Modernize Hashing
: Because Microsoft Access files aren't executed like code (they are just data files), the web server would simply let the person download the whole file. The Result
