271255 - long filenames with underscore are truncated and lose file extension

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 252309

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Ric Dash]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Download manager truncates long filenames that have underscores
e.g. Key_West_Wedding_Email.doc becomes Key_West_Wedding (no file extension)
another person on the message board noted:
 this is the file I want to download from yahoo mail
CashCnote181104NSEEQ.csv_BVS004__249897rad32A5D.zip
When firefox downloads it
It saves as CashCnote181104NSEEQ.csv_BVS004_
and the file type becomes 'csv_BVS004_ '


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Long file name attachments in Yahoo mail
2. Download
3.

Actual Results:  
file name truncated

Expected Results:  
saved full filename to hard drive

may be specific to Yahoo Mail, but has been seen by at least two
separate users on multiple occasions

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

All file names have spaces, (some of) the underscores are only for display by
yahoo (see bug 252309 comment 0 step 4). The filename is truncated at the first
real space. It is the issue from bug 221028. To evangelize we have already a bug
for yahoo, so marking as dupe.

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