Web Delivered Extensionless PDF

I have been testing a new internal web portal which will give employees access to a large database of PDF documents.  This portral appears to deliver all PDFs with a generic filename "FILE0" and with no extension.  When we access the portal with Internet Explorer 8 and Adobe Reader X(10), the user is able to view the PDF.  The same browser with Adobe Reader 8 or 9 is not able to view the PDF.  Can anyone shed light on how this works?  How does Adobe Reader X know that these extensionless files are PDFs?  Can previous version of Reader be made to do this?
Thanks for reading.

In the web app settings you can enable file uploads, specify the folder for the files and build the custom field image which also supports files like pdf. You can add them via the admin or via the add/update forms for web app items.
You can then render the tag with _value to get the raw url and create a link on your display layouts for the pdf.

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