[Camino] A Question Regarding Downloading Attachments and Extensions

[Smokey Ardisson]

At 6:37 PM -0800 on 2/28/07, Denise Kruse wrote:

>When receiving web-based mail (specifically Novell WebAccess) with 
>Camino, I cannot get .doc attachments to keep their extension even 
>though they are saved as .doc and appear that way in the mail 
>message.  When I download the .doc attachment, it then appears on my 
>desktop minus the extension and opens (as a default?) with Excel.
>
>-This is peculiar only to Camino because Safari downloads the same 
>item as it is supposed to be, a .doc.

I assume the identical version of Firefox behaves the same way as 
Camino (Camino 1.0.x = Firefox 1.5.0.x, Camino 1.1b = Firefox 
2.0.0.x)?

>-I did not see a bug report on this, but wanted to ask here first 
>anyway.   Any answers?

My first guess is that it's probably a bug with Novell WebAccess, 
given that Safari tends to ignore standards when saving files (Safari 
changes extensions and doesn't truncate unquoted filenames with space 
characters, contra the specs, whereas Gecko enforces these more 
strictly).

Without having access to one of these setups to test, or having you 
do some debugging for us, it's hard to say for sure. :(  If you're 
willing to do a little work on this, do file a bug, and we can talk 
you through some of the debugging to see if it's a Camino/Gecko bug 
or a problem with Novell WebAccess.

Smokey
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Smokey Ardisson
Co-Lead
Triage/QA and Website & Documentation
The Camino Project