153197 - 'Save link target as' can not handle '[' type characters

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 76799

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Adrian Jenkins]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611
BuildID:    2002061104

When choosing 'Save link target as' to download a file with '[' or ']'
characters but instead turns them into '%5B' and '%5D'. however when clicking on
the file name to download, the characters are kept.

e.g. of filename 
original - 'yn2-14[1].002'
after choosing save link target as - 'yn2-14%5B1%5D.002'

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a file with an extension that mozilla doesn't handle (e.g 001) that
has '[' character in the file name
2. create a link to that file in a web page
3. click on the link to download - file name is kept
4. choose save link target as to download - file name distorted

Actual Results:  file name distorted - e.g. 'yn2-14%5B1%5D.002'

Expected Results:  original file name should be kept - e.g. 'yn2-14[1].002'

theme used was pinball - haven't tried it on any others sorry

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Duplicate of "File...Save As is not unescaping filenames"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 76799 ***

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

marking verified as a duplicate.

if you decide to reopen this bug, please clarify why.

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