295698 - Images with '_' in the filename not open

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[password]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Firefox/1.0.4

WHen I try to download a image file with '_' in the filename then the following
happen:
1. Says unknown file format if u try to open the file directly
2. If you download the file then it changes the filename to the text before '_'.
In short its using '_' as a some kind of delimiter

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a mail with an image file as an attachment having '_' in the filename
2. Click on the image
3. It asks open with, give jpegfile default
4. It says Unknown file format
5. Open the same image file and this time select the option of save
6. After it downloads the file on the desktop check its filename and the extension.
7. If the file name was abc_def.bmp, Firefox renames it to abc

Actual Results:  
1. File didnt open
2. After saving the file extension was gone, and file name was changed

Expected Results:  
1. Opened the file in the registered software
2. Downloaded the file without changing the filename

Comment 1

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Firefox/1.0.4
WFM
Sent myself an image in gmail having "_" in different parts of it's name and
there's no problem viewing or downloading the file. Would you please give
examples of the file names that gave you problems and the mail application you
were using?

Comment 2

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

Attachment: Example of file with '_'

As described in comment #1, this image shouldn't be viewable or downloadable.

Comment 3

[OstGote!]

Could it be that you are downloading such files from Yahoo? Yahoo shows "_" if
it reality the file contains a space " " and sends incorrect headers, see bug
252309.

Please provide an example remote URL with such a file name.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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