247651 - Downloading some files with spaces in file name: Firefox CUTS OFF file name after the first word!

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 221028

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Bart]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8

I use the below code on my page to allow downloading files stored in mySQL:

  header("Content-type: $type");
  header("Content-length: $size");
  header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$name");
  header("Content-Description: PHP Generated Data");

When $name is a file name with spaces in it (eg. $name="This is a long file
name.txt"), FIREFOX will try to save this file as "This", with the rest
(including extension) cut off.

Maybe it's just my PHP code on the page that is wrong ("Content-Disposition:
attachment; filename=$name"), but IE handles it correctly.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use a PHP webpage with the above code (above headers and $name="A long file
name.txt").
2.Open the php file with Firefox, to download the file (attachment)

Actual Results:  
filename was truncated

Expected Results:  
not truncate :) As IE does.

Comment 1

[Ali Ebrahim]

If the filename has whitespace, it MUST be quoted. Else, it violates the RFC,
and Mozilla does not play nice with violators ;)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 221028 ***