255732 - download filename is shortened

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 252309

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[u151698]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

When a file is downloaded and it has a filename with a space character, the
filename is sometimes shortened to only the name before the space + extension.
For example "work 0813.xls" becomes "work.xls."

I've seen this happen when being asked to save a file, and also when a file is
automatically saved for an external app (.torrent for example).



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
One site that anyone can reproduce this easily everytime is in Yahoo's webmail:

1. Have someone email a file with a space in the filename.
2. Download it.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

Please create an HTTP log as described at
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/http/http-debugging.html and attach it to
this bug. I guess it is Bug 221028.

Comment 2

[u151698]

Attachment: http log

Comment 3

[u151698]

I just read the bug you linked. That sounds depressing if this is the same case.

Comment 4

[OstGote!]

Your log shows it ...

3728[aac518]: http response [
3728[aac518]:   HTTP/1.1 200 OK
3728[aac518]:   Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 17:19:38 GMT
...
3728[aac518]:   content-disposition: attachment; filename=space test file name.txt
3728[aac518]:   Content-Description: space test file name.txt
3728[aac518]:   Connection: close
3728[aac518]:   Transfer-Encoding: chunked
3728[aac518]:   Content-Type: application/download; filename="foo.bar"
3728[aac518]: ]

Note the line:
3728[aac518]:   content-disposition: attachment; filename=space test file name.txt

The filename param is either a quoted string or characters up to the first
"non-word" character (such as whitespace).

You may want to contact the site maintainer and ask him to put quotes around the
filenames so they'll work right. There exists a Tech Evang bug for
mail.yahoo.com so please resolve this bug as duplicate of Bug 252309.

Comment 5

[timeless]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 252309 ***