Thinking about it, it is probably not a good idea to allow this illegal use of the browser.
It reminds me, however, of another posting in bugtracker:
https://openacs.org/bugtracker/openacs/bug?bug%5fnumber=118
Don, do you see any hooks in the request processor for the .dat extension?
Should it be there or should the documentation be removed?
https://openacs.org/doc/acs-templating/guide/document.html
