193829 - filenames are truncated in ftp directory listing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 195956

(Core Graveyard :: Networking: FTP, defect)

Description

[Anthony Elizondo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

at ftp://shasha:[e-mail]/ numerous files have truncated
file names, which prevents the user (me!) from downloading them. Logging in to
the FTP from various other FTP clients works fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to ftp://shasha:[e-mail]/ 
2. Enter the Built To Spill direcory
3. Try to download track 1 (or 4 or 8, but use track 1 for this example)

Actual Results:  
Application error pop-up with "550 /Built To Spill - The Normal Years/Built to
Spill - 01 - So &: No such file or directory"

Expected Results:  
Begin to download the file, which is called "Built to Spill - 01 - So & So So &
So From Wherever Wherever.mp3"

FTP clients that can download this file w/ no problem: SmartFTP 1.0.973 for
Windows 2000, Windows 2000 ftp command line client, ftp from Debian Linux
2.2.19, Internet Explorer 6.0.2800.1106

I've discovered that Mozilla CAN d/l the file if fed the correct filename in the
location bar. So, for example, if you want track 4, you can feed Moz
ftp://shasha:[e-mail]/Built%20To%20Spill%20-%20The%20Normal%20Years/Built%20to%20Spill%20-%2004%20-%20Some%20Things%20Last%20a%20Long%20Time.mp3
and it will work, even when the directory listing is only giving you
ftp://shasha:[e-mail]/Built%20To%20Spill%20-%20The%20Normal%20Years/Built%20to%20Spill%20-%2004%20-%20Some%20Things

Comment 1

[Jesiah S]

I see this also Linux 20030217

Comment 2

[Gábor Lipták]

confirm this with

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030214

Comment 3

[Anthony Elizondo]

I've noticed that all the 'breaks' in the filenames (at least on this ftp) are 
occuring on spaces, the space between words, and that the full URL contains 
quite a few spaces. I don't know if this helps. 

Comment 4

[benc]

+ clean-report, regression, nsbeta1
? blocking 1.3.

This happens in Mozilla 1.3b, but not in Chimera. I can isolate further if needed.

Comment 5

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

yup.  

I am pretty sure that ANY browser that uses gecko will have this problem. we are
treating the & char as the begining of an escape.  Consider:

ftp://shasha:[e-mail]/Built%20To%20Spill%20-%20The%20Normal%20Years/Built%20to%20Spill%20-%2001%20-%20So%20&

Comment 6

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

dup

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 191638 ***

Comment 7

[Anthony Elizondo]

Comment 5 is inaccurate in that the bug is NOT limited to filenames that contain
the & character. See:
ftp://[e-mail]/Wilco%20-%20Yankee%20Hotel%20Foxtrot

Tracks 1 (which should read Wilco - 01 - I Am Trying To Break Your Heart.mp3)
and 8 (which should read Wilco - 08 - I'm The Man Who Loves You.mp3) contain no
ampersands (and neither do the full paths), and yet they are still broken. 

Can I suggest that this bug be reopened? Or, at least, widen the scope of bug
191638? Thanks.

Comment 8

[benc]

They seem to stop at a consistent length. I've noticed that the filename space
of the more recent index/html views is narrower than previous versions.

Comment 9

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

This is a dupe of 191638 which _is_ about the % character.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 191638 ***

Comment 10

[benc]

Anthony: this was fixed, does the problem still happen with a build after 02-27-03?

I think this is related more to bug 193829.

Comment 11

[Anthony Elizondo]

benc: yes! thank you for checking. i still see the same behavior. see: the
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot directory, and the aforementioned Built To Spill - Normal
Years dir. 

i am now using the latest nightly, non-ralkback: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;
Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030313

Comment 12

[benc]

I meant to say:

bug 195956.

I finished analyzing this today. This is a dupe of that bug. 

This is the completely confusing to me 8 space.

Built to Spill - 04 - Some Things
Built to Spill - 08 - Sick &
Built to Spill - 04 - Some Things
     1  2     3 4  5 6    7...... next space truncates filename.

Why 8 spaces? I don't know.

We really need to know where this broke, so if you can hop back by milestones,
please update the other bug.

Also, please VERIFY this bug if you concur w/ the duplication, or REOPEN if you
disagree.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 195956 ***