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C:\foo has a default (primary) data stream; the name of that stream is empty, so it's omitted entirely when writing the name. But the file can also have C:\foo:

C:\foo has a default (primary) data stream; the name of that stream is empty, so it's omitted entirely when writing the name. But the file can also have C:\foo:bar on NTFS. It's a different stream that's part of the original. (Look up "NTFS ADS" or just "NTFS streams".) These are often used to store information tied to a file that shouldn't affect the file contents.

KMag 3y ago
In the late 1990s, there was a bug in MS IIS where if you requested http://example.com/page.php http://example.com/page.php , it would execute the PHP script, but if you requested http://example.com/page.php http://example.com/page.php: , it would give you the PHP source code. Even more than today, it was common to hard-code database connection details, including passwords, into the source code.