256882 - Unable to save page, when name ends with question mark (?)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Stepan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; cs-CZ; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; cs-CZ; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

When trying to save page as ... and name of file name and with question mark,
page is not saved even after several clicks on save button of save page as...
dialog. Actually nothing happens after clicking this button

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. open save page as ...
2. enter ? at the end of the name of file
3. click on the save button

Actual Results:  
(nothing happens then)

Expected Results:  
save the file

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

I can confirm with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2)
Gecko/20040822 Firefox/0.9.1+ 

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

Confirming with Mozilla build 2004082407 on WinNT4. 

First I thought (after reading the summary only) you mean that you cannot save
links like http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi? at all. Ok now I understand
your problem, but what for a reason do you have to put an illegal character to a
filename? Mozilla can't save such a file on Windows. The only "bug" I see is the
missing error dialog for "illegal filename" like if you put a ":" in the
filename. Try it. So the expected result should be "display a warning".

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

I tried several other application for their behavior by question marks in the
filename. Windows explorer gives me a error dialog. But no other application
shows me this dialog. I get prompted again and again for a correct filename. Is
this a bug of FF or should we mark this invalid?

Comment 4

[OstGote!]

I guess I found it! "*" and "?" on Windows are used as wildcards. For save page
as we use the native Windows file dialog. If you put a name with * or ? in it
and press enter or click save you start a search for this files in the current
directory and only the located files are displayed (filter function).

Test it: Make sure you have a file name.html in it. Now do a save as to this
folder. Change the name for the new file to name.htm? and press enter. Now you
see the file in the upper pane of the dialog. "?" stands for a single character
or nothing and "*" for any number of chars. 

This is by design of Windows. So it is IMHO invalid.

Comment 5

[Stepan]

You're right. It's problem of Windows.

Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

=> INVALID as result of the discussion.