514443 - When opening a file with an ampersand in it, anything after the ampersand is dropped when calling the program to do the opening.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Matthew Simoneau]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

I've written some Ruby code to inspect ZIP-files as part of an internal company process.  The way we usually launch this code is from a web browser.  When you click to download the file, you select "open with" and specify the full path to a small batch file.  This one-line batch file looks like this:

    \\mathworks\public\Matthew_Simoneau\ruby-1.8.7-p72-i386-mswin32\bin\ruby.exe "%~dp0inspect.rb" %1

I'm having a problem when the filename of the ZIP file contains an ampersand.

This works fine on IE and Chrome, where the above line gets "expanded" out to the following:

    C:\WINNT\Profiles\matthew\Desktop>\\mathworks\public\Matthew_Simoneau\ruby-1.8.7-p72-i386-mswin32\bin\ruby.exe "\\mathworks\public\Matthew_Simoneau\sandbox\inspect\inspect.rb" "C:\WINNT\Profiles\matthew\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\VNATJ3X0\park&park_paper_LMI_neuralN[1].zip"

On Firefox, however, everything after the ampersand in the filename gets dropped on the floor:

    H:\>\\mathworks\public\Matthew_Simoneau\ruby-1.8.7-p72-i386-mswin32\bin\ruby.exe "\\mathworks\public\Matthew_Simoneau\sandbox\inspect\inspect.rb" C:\Temp\park

I've tried putting the "%1" in quotes in the batch file, but that has no effect.

I suspect this is a bug in Firefox.  I've searched the Firefox bug list, but didn't find anything.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Matthew Simoneau]

See also this discussion:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1369493/how-do-i-make-firefox-open-a-file-with-an-ampersand-in-the-filename