67286 - Invalid Content Disposition

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: MIME, defect)

Description

[greg.berlin]

we have received from a customer an invalid disposition that they received - 
it should either be inline or inline; form-data={something} or form-data - not 
as received.

We have no idea how or what platform the message was produced - see 
www.mimesweeper.com to see what our product does.

Part of the message is detailed below


X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [de] (Win95; I)
X-Accept-Language: de
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Form posted from Mozilla
Content-type: text/plain
Content-Disposition: inline; form-data
Message-Id: <00101612071541300@mail-server>

Comment 1

[greg.berlin]

Attachment: the message as stored from the receiver service

Comment 2

[Henrik Gemal]

Hmmm not sure what this bug is about..
The message that you show is produced with:
Mozilla 4.5 [de] (Win95; I)
meaning I think Netscape version 4.5 running on Windows 95. I dont think this is 
Mozilla. I never heard about version 4.5.
So this bug must be INVALID.

Comment 3

[Fabian Guisset]

Could you please describe more precisely the actual results, and the expected
results please? What IS the bug? Is it a bug in Mozilla, or in Netscape, and if
the latter, in which version of it?

Comment 4

[greg.berlin]

All I can say is that the Content disposition is not compliant.  Our product 
analyses content according to policy specified by the user, and we basically 
reject this message as being invalid format.  If, as was suggested, this is 
from netscape, then we will have to add a fix in our code to correct the format 
before we do the rest of the processing.  We have fixes for a number of bugs 
from a variaty of clients, but since we thought this was from Mozilla, and it's 
not finished, we didn't want to add to the confusion in that area of our 
product (I hope that makes sense).  I'm not sure how the clients receiver 
(whatever they are using to process this message) deals with it.

The exact point is that the Content disposition should read as one of the 
following:

1.   inline
2.   form-data
3.   inline;form-data=something

I hope you can see why I raised the bug.

Comment 5

[Fabian Guisset]

I don't, but I'm sure other people understand ;-)
Would it  be possible for you to contact the person who sent you this invalid
form and ask him what browser he is using? I suspect it is Netscape4.75 and not
Mozilla. (Netscape4.75 also identifies as Mozilla4.0, though I'm not sure why).
If he is using NS4.75, this bug is invalid. Else, it should be marked new for
investigation.

Comment 6

[greg.berlin]

I'll try.  Unfortunately the originator of the email is not even our client.  
He/she sent the message that went to our client, where it stumbled within our 
product.  Also, due to pressures, this is only just being looked at, and the 
message was sent in October.  Marketting also don't like us techie types 
contacting a contact of one of our customers, so they will want to do it - 
sorry lots of negatives in that!!

Comment 7

[Henrik Gemal]

The thing that send this mail was not a Mozilla client.

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Mozilla 4.5 is what Netscape Communicator version 4.5 (yes, such a version
exists) calls itself.  So this is a bug in a (rather old) version of Netscape,
not in Mozilla.

verifying invalid.