[Camino] A Question Regarding Downloading Attachments and Extensions

[neeciek at sonic.net]

Good job!  Thank you both. Thank you, Graeme, for the testing.  It will be
difficult to contact Novell; however, it is nice to know why the problem
is happening.  dk


> Given that behavior, it's basically guaranteed to be a server issue.
> You should contact them and inform them that the filename portion of
> a Content-Disposition header must be quoted if it includes spaces.
>
> Camino and Firefox are doing the right thing here; treating spaces as
> the spec says is a necessary part of correctly handling all forms of
> that header. Safari and IE don't stop at the space as they should.
>
> -Stuart
>
> On Mar 2, 2007, at 1:27 AM, Graeme Porteous wrote:
>
>> I've done some testing on Novell Webmail v7.0 and v6.5. Both behave
>> the
>> same. It seems to happen when the file name contains a space,
>> 'filename.ext' works, 'file name.ext' doesn't and results in a
>> download
>> called 'file'. Same behaviour in Firefox. Where as Safari encodes the
>> file name, so you get a download called 'file%20name.ext'.
>>
>> Graeme
>>
>> Smokey Ardisson wrote, on 2/3/07 04:15:
>>> 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.
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