273011 - Dragging URL to desktop fails when page title contains pipe ("|")

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop, defect)

Description

[EJP]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

Creating a shortcut by dragging the icon from the URL input to the desktop or a
folder fails if the page title (what Mozilla tries to use as the shortcut name)
contains a pipe character ("|").  AIR, some other characters fail also, but I
just tested and found colon works correctly, by substituting a dash.

This has existed since at least ~1.5.0

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Browse to a page which has a pipe in the page title, The Register does this,
aka http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/03/lycos_antispam_site_offline/
2. Try to drag the icon from the URL input to the desktop.
3. An error dlg is displayed, "the disk may be full..."

Actual Results:  
An error dlg is displayed, "the disk may be full..." but I am guessing the
problem is an attempt to create the shortcut with a pipe in the filename.

Expected Results:  
A shortcut on the desktop with a name based on the page title, but with dashes
substituted for any invalid chars (":|<>*?" at a minimum, and possibly also some
others).

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

wfm Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041202
wfm Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

<title>Lycos antispam site taken offline | The Register    </title>

My shortcut: Lycos antispam site taken offline The Register

Comment 2

[EJP]

Tested Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217
on the original NT4sp6 machine, bug still occurs.  Tested on a XPsp1 machine and
it worked OK, substituting a dash as expected.

Comment 3

[EJP]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217
Tested both above on NT50sp4 machine with FAT32 successfully 

Tested 175 on NT4Ssp6 (Server) and it failed there.

All indications are this is an NT4 issue, it's failed with different user
accounts, with full administrator rights, with FAT filesystem on C: drive.
The bug is not restricted just to the desktop, any other folder as the target
fails also.  On the machines where it fails, it fails going to FAT or NTFS local
drives or Netware networked drives.  On the machines where it works it works to
local drive or Netware networked drives.

Comment 4

[EJP]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414
still broken with 177/NT4

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[EJP]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

Both above still broken on NT4sp6

Comment 7

[Andrew Schultz]

==> drag/drop

Comment 8

[Kyle Huey (Exited; not receiving bugmail, old account, do not use)]

No longer applicable.