78509 - Can't make an Internet shortcut with :, /, \ in title (by dragging link to desktop)

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect, P3)

Description

[rhomolka]

Suck.com has colons in most of their titles (maybe all).
Can't drag an Internet shortcute to the desktop, system barfs on colon.

Tested locally with other illegals, slash and backslash barf.
Other path-illegal characters (*, ?, ", <, >, |) get stripped.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Looks like an XP apps issue..

Comment 2

[timeless]

reporter: you didn't give steps to reproduce, that's not nice.

Did you use the file menu, or did you drag a link to explorer, or did you drag 
the url proxy to explorer, or ...?

Comment 3

[rhomolka]

Sorry about "steps to reproduce", I thought I was clearer.
If you drag something from the Loction bar to the desktop, it'll barf.  Dunno 
about other ways of making an Internet Shortcut.

Comment 4

[David Illsley]

*** Bug 97654 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Ben Ruppel]

This looks like a dupe of bug 91122.  Someone should prolly make one a dup of
the other (this bug has a more concise summary).

Is there any progress in the works?  

Comment 6

[Terri Preston]

*** Bug 91122 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Ben Ruppel]

Can this get a few keywords, like polish and 4xp?  Not to nag, but this and the
window focus grabbing bug are the two top annoyances on my list.  

Comment 8

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 60396 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Paul Chen]

marking p3 and mozilla0.9.7

Comment 10

[Ben Ruppel]

Well well well, with winXP, starting around October 11 builds, I can
reproducably crash mozilla by trying to make one of these shortcuts
(http://www.thestandard.com/companies/industry/index/0,2059,6324,00.html is my
test URL).

The dialog pops up, and all of mozilla gets stuck.  I have to go to task manager
to kill mozilla, then the dialog is clickable and it goes away.  If it stays a
crasher, perhaps it should get higher priority.

Comment 11

[Ben Ruppel]

Okay, I did a little more research on this.
The dialog comes up in winXP, not win2k.  Win2k just gives a beep when trying 
to make a shortcut.  WinXP gives the following error message: "The filename, 
directory, or volume lavel syntax is incorrect."

It seems to be a focus problem, because clicking on any mozilla window won't 
get you anywhere, but clicking on the desktop finally brings the dialog into 
focus where you can click ok and unlock mozilla.

Comment 12

[Alfonso Martinez]

*** Bug 105114 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc (PTO until April 26)]

Bug 112395 looks like a duplicate of this bug

<a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112395">112395</a>

Comment 14

[Paul Chen]

Not going to be able to get to this soon, pushing out to mozilla1.0.1

Comment 15

[Tim Powell]

*** Bug 112395 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16

[Tim Powell]

You can also see this problem dragging bug 108704, which has the title "Mozilla
crashes when form is moved by JavaScript M096 & Trunk [@
nsGenericHTMLElement::GetPrimaryFrame]" (Note the colons).

Comment 17

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

-> default assignee

Comment 18

[Alan S. Jones]

this is a really anoying bug, many people i know including myself drag links to 
their desktop.
Any chance of hitting it before 1.0?

Comment 19

[Peter Trudelle]

->blaker for triage

Comment 20

[Ben Ruppel]

please please please don't push this back.  This is the one and only bug that
really annoys the heck out of me on a daily basis.

Comment 21

[Blake Ross]

Attachment: patch

Comment 22

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

Comment on attachment 67156 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

remove the PR_FREEIF (very very bad) and r=pink.

Comment 23

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Comment on attachment 67156 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

sr=[e-mail]

Comment 24

[Blake Ross]

Fix checked in.

Some caring individual should file a bug on me to complete IE behavior by 
stripping off everything up until (and including) the last "\", which is IMO 
the best.

Comment 25

[:deanis74]

I had a patch similar to this in bug 42009 (attachment 49717 [details] [diff] [review]).  There are three
differences, though.

1. I used strtok which should be faster than looping, shouldn't it?
2. My list invalid characters is longer.  I got that list from the MozClassic code.
3. I used a space instead of "-".  "-" is kinda ugly, dontchathink?

Comment 26

[:deanis74]

*** Bug 42009 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 27

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

comments on dean's patch:

1) you need to PR_free tempStr when you're done. Right now it is leaked.

2) The use of strtok really complicates reading of the patch, and all the
copying back to titleStr is un-necessary. I prefer the solution that just edits
the string in place.

3) at first i liked the longer list of invalid characters, but then I realized,
this is the 21st century and things like commas and questionmarks should be
perfectly valid in filenames.

what do the rest of you think? I can go either way.

Comment 28

[Jeff Lawson]

The patch using strchr() is indeed better because it edits it in place.  

The formal list of characters that WindowsXP's Explorer shell disallows the 
user to put into a filename are:  \ / : * ? " < > |

The Question mark should not be used because it is a wildcard character.

This set differs from Dean's exclusion set only by not including ~ (tilde) 
and , (comma) which are both legitimately usable.

Comment 29

[Daniel Mario Vega (Restore MNG Support --> #18574)]

The invalid char under Windows are:
 
     \ It's the path separator
     : It's the drive letter delimiter
     / It's the command line option delimiter
   * ? Wildcards
     " Sometimes used to enclose long filenames
 < > | Shell redirection chars

Also any character bellow ASCII 32 is invalid.

 ~ and , are valid filename chars.

Related info
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q177506

A think attachment 67156 [details] [diff] [review] and attachment 49717 [details] [diff] [review] are both incomplete.

Comment 30

[Alfonso Martinez]

*** Bug 130181 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 31

[Daniel Mario Vega (Restore MNG Support --> #18574)]

I think this bug should be reopen. It is not completely fixed. To reproduce the
bug go to this URL:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94023

And try to create a shortcut by doing a drag and drop from the URL bar to the
desktop.

The following characters should also be checked also: * ? " < > | 

Comment 32

[Jeff Lawson]

Reopening, additional characters need to be filtered:

   * ? Wildcards
     " Sometimes used to enclose long filenames
 < > | Shell redirection chars
any character bellow ASCII 32 is invalid.

http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla1.0/source/widget/src/windows/nsDataObj.cpp#494

Comment 33

[Brodie]

Attachment: testcase

Verified fixed with Mozilla Build ID 2003091604
Can we get this closed?

Comment 34

[Jeff Lawson]

It does seem to be fixed in at least Mozilla 1.5b according to my test with 
that testcase.

Does this URL represent the current source?
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/widget/src/windows/nsDataObj.cpp#516

If so, I still don't seem to see handling for several of those characters so 
perhaps it was fixed in some other method in an alternate way?

Comment 35

[Brodie]

This has been fixed by the patch in bug 103468.

Comment 36

[Brodie]

Would someone please verify this fixed and then mark closed.

Comment 37

[:deanis74]

marking fixed based on Brodie's comments