361530 - dmo.gov.uk - incorrect use of content-disposition HTTP header

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Mike]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

At above URL:
   Click on "Gilts in Issue" (in first line of body text).
   Click on "Continue" until a page appears with four buttons at the bottom.
   Click on, e.g., Adobe PDF and note the file name, viz "untitled.pdf,.pdf"

The commas should not be there.

N.B. IE7 uses filename "untitled[1].pdf"



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on "Gilts in Issue" (in first line of body text).
2. Click on "Continue" until a page appears with four buttons at the bottom.
3. Click on, e.g., Adobe PDF and note the file name, viz "untitled.pdf,.pdf"

Actual Results:  
Filename is "untitled.pdf,.pdf" 

Expected Results:  
Filename should be "untitled[1].pdf"

Comment 1

[Mike]

This not an isolated example, see:
http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsPortalWebApp/downloadFile?contentID=HMCE_CL_001668

Comment 2

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

The server is sending a response with HTTP header..

Content-Disposition: inline;filename=untitled.pdf, inline; filename=ReportExporter1.pdf

That's an invalid content-disposition, but Firefox tries to get what it can.

The Content-Disposition is specced in RFC 2183 [1] with syntax in Section 2. The trailing comma is treated as part of "value" in..

filename-parm := "filename" "=" value

.. and the rest is probably considered junk.

[1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2183.txt

Comment 3

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.