96370 - Can't save files with a colon in the filename

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[ryland]

When I click on a link to file to download it, if there's a colon in the
filename, the "Save As..." dialog comes up, but it won't download.

Comment 1

[ryland]

To see this in action, go to http://www.filepile.org/ and find a file in one of
the piles that has a colon in it (there's usually at least a couple).

Comment 2

[Christian Reis]

I can't reproduce this on 2001082108 at all. I'm trying

http://www.filepile.org:8080/f/movies/protrude,%20flow.rm

(with shift-click so it actually tried and pops up a save as window) and it
works for me.

Comment 3

[ryland]

That file doesn't have a colon in the filename. It has a %20, which translates
to a space. Try this one:

http://www.filepile.org:8080/f/pictures/you::ve_been_kissed.gif

Comment 4

[Andreas M. "Clarence" Schneider]

With 2001-08-24-03, Win NT, the save-as dialog doesn't even come up. Note that ':'
isn't a valid char in filename on Windows. But that isn't a reason to prohibit
to save such
a file. Ideally Mozilla should suggest a valid filename for the OS, e.g.
substitute ':' with
"%3A" on Windows.

Confirming. I'm not sure about the right component for this, trying Networking /
File first.
Reporter, please include the build ID you're using in future bug reports, or use the
Bugzilla Helper at http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/bug-form.html .

Comment 5

[ryland]

Sorry, Build ID is 2001080110.

Comment 6

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

file picker bug.  It suggests the names xpcom/necko will use.

Comment 7

[Paul Chen]

-> law

Comment 8

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

spam: over to File Handling.

Comment 9

[Bill Law]

Mass moving bugs that won't get fixed this milestone.

Comment 10

[Bill Law]

balancing move of Helper App Mgt feature work bugs to this milestone

Comment 11

[malachai]

This also fails if the page's URL contains %3A in place of the colon character
(tested as of 2001112903).

Comment 12

[Peter Trudelle]

re-assigning 'several bugs at once' to [e-mail].

Comment 13

[Peter Trudelle]

nsbeta1- per ADT triage team

Comment 14

[Peter Trudelle]

Mass-moving all Navigator team 1.0 nsbeta1- bugs to 1.1

Comment 15

[Stephen P. Morse]

reassigning to component owner

Comment 16

[Michael Gabriel]

needs a new target, is bug 128430 a dupe of this ?
please fix this, like when getting files that went over 16 bit windows systems
its a real killer.

Comment 17

[Michael Gabriel]

*** Bug 128430 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 18

[Michael Gabriel]

this is atleast major, if not critical.
you cant download these files and you cant save the attachments from emails !!
just for the hype setting a new target, without hope this is gonna happen cause
this bug is over a year old

Comment 19

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

Hmm. I can't reproduce this bug - it works for me in Netscape 7.0, Netscape 7.1
as well as Mozilla trunk. (win2k)

testcase: http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0225227/foo:bar.html
or http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0225227/foo%3Abar.html

can anyone still reproduce this?

Comment 20

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040207