24702 - Attachment that was saved without an extension comes empty

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Internationalization, defect, P3)

Description

[marina]

When you save a page from the browser without supplying an html extension 
File|Save as... it is saved with no extension.When sending such a file as a mail 
attachment it comes blank.
Steps to reproduce:
-go to yahoo.com;
-save file by File|Save as..not specifying that this is an html file, OK the 
dlgbox;
-now open New Mail composition, attach the file and send mail;
-select the message upon receiving;
//note: message is blank

Comment 1

[marina]

Other findins: non Intl page saved with no extension shows up as raw html code 
opposite to Intl ones that are just blank.

Comment 2

[nhottanscp]

Jeff, could you take a look at this?

Comment 3

[jefft]

Rich, don't you have a bug like this one?

Comment 4

[rhp (gone)]

Sorry, this looks new to me.

- rhp

Comment 5

[msanz]

marina, can you try this again? If still present, please mark it nsbeta2 since 
it involves data loss

Comment 6

[marina]

It is still happening with 2000-04-21 build, marking nsbeta2.

Comment 7

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

QA contact to marina.

Comment 8

[selmer (gone)]

Mail Review recommends this bug as beta2 stopper.  Adding nsbeta2 keyword.

Comment 9

[leger]

Putting on [nsbeta2-] radar. Not critical to beta2.  Adding to nsbeta3 keyword 
for lookee later on.

Comment 10

[leger]

oops..meant +.  Putting on [nsbeta2+] radar for beta2 fix.

Comment 11

[jefft]

I don't think this is a valid bug. If the user doesn't specify the file 
extention when saving a web page there is no way to tell what kind of file that 
is. Saving a Japanese web page without file extension and then attach to a mail. 
Upon receiving the message you can not view it in line, sort of empty but you 
can save it to the disk via attachment button. The reason you cannot view it 
inline is because double byte stream embedded in the file which the mail program 
treat it as a binary file using base 64 encoding. Without the file extension 
there is no way that the mail client can tell what kind of attachment it is. For 
saving a  non international web page without file extension and then attach to a 
mail. User can view it inline because it treat it as a text/plain attachment. 
There is no non-ascii character embedded in the file attachment. It was sent as 
a text/plain attachment using 7-bit encoding. Because of there is no file 
extention to indicate what kind of attachment it is you get to see the raw html 
stream.

Comment 12

[marina]

verified as such