349014 - File names with slash (/) are ignored by Download Manager, no Error message is displayed

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Rotis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6

* Go to: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=72151095&size=l

* Right-click image and choose "Save Image As ..."

* A download dialog box appears and shows "72151095_cd767ecc1b_b.jpg"

* Change this to "F/A-22.jpg" (the name of the plane) and click "Save"

* The download dialog box disappears, NO download takes place, Firefox' "Downloads" window does NOT open, when opening it by pressing APPLE-J it is empty, at the download destination NO file was saved

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
Download "F/A-22.jpg" to disk OR giving me an error message, why this is not possible. If I click "Save" and it appears to being saved but in reality it is not, I suffer massive data loss.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

/ and : are not allowed in filenames on Mac OS X (/ is used as a separator on UFS, : on HFS+).

To avoid problems, you're not able to type them in Firefox 2.0 (you hear a beep). Sorry, I can't find back the bug right now where this was discussed.

Comment 2

[programming]

This bug was actually reported earlier, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317290

But either way, it is fixable as the previous poster indicated. 

Comment 3

[programming]

This bug was inappropriately closed and nothing has been fixed. You can type / in the name and the file does not get saved.

Bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317290 is now open and supersedes this report.

Comment 4

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

Yes, it was inappropriately WONTFIXED, however, now it is proper since the 1.5 branch is no longer supported.