288760 - Firefox can not properly handle filenames with more than one dot

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(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

On 3-15-2005 I went to download the latest version of Firefox:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
using Firefox 1.0 {Win98SE} and clicked on Free Download.
The message said: Opening Firefox Setup 1.0.1.exe
and the popup message said that it was a mp3 file!
I captured the image of the pop up (but how do I attach it to the bug report? I
can email it to someone if they ask me)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. see description
2.
3.



Expected Results:  
Not have misinterpreted the filename. It seems Firefox constantly has problems
with filename that aren't DOS 8.3 style. It's own install uses three dots and
spaces, and there are repeated complaints in the Bug section on it not handling
spaces and underscores in the filename. e.g.
Bugzilla Bug 284202 
Downloaded filenames are truncated when containing underscore characters
Downloaded filenames are truncated as well when containing spaces

Bugzilla Bug 244719
filename truncated after download (or Save To Disk) if filename contains space
characters

The explanations by Mozilla staff are really lame, like: just because Internet
Explorer can do it doesn't mean we must handle this stuff, since Microsoft isn't
abidding by international coding rules. Or it must be the website servers fault
for not using appropriate code. This is lame - if you want the world to adopt
(and over throw) Microsoft products as being lame, you can't have a product
which itself is inferior. Microsoft is now developing a tabbed browser which
likely will do everything (and more) that Firefox does, and then Firefox will
disappear.

Comment 1

[Ric Dash]

Attachment: JPG image of Firefox pop up message

Comment 2

[Ian Graham]

WFM with firefox 1.0.2 on Win98 SE -- just tried it myself on Win98 -- no
problems with the download, and it is reported to be of type "application"

Do other programs (other than firefox) have this problem -- interpreting
file types can be an OS-related (and thus a windows registry issue), so this
would show up in programs other than firefox.

Comment 3

[Ric Dash]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Do other programs (other than firefox) have this problem?

No. And I do not get this when using IE5.5, Netscape 4.79, or earlier versions
of Firefox. I would concede there may something idiosyncratic about my
computer/registry, but other seemingly related issues from others with
underscore, spaces, etc suggest something is either wrong with the code for
Firefox, or it is easily corrupted.

Comment 4

[timeless]

a regmon log could prove interesting. please do not email it to me, just attach
it (limit it to the bits relating to HKCR esp .exe and whatever mimetypes it
looks up when it tries to download the file).

Comment 5

[William Price]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050407
Firefox/1.0+

WFM.

Tried FTP download as well as numerous tries from mozilla.org/products/firefox;
thought it might be a bad mirror, but all the ones I hit never showed this problem.

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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