Created by Brian Wiles (brian@inforum.net) on Sunday, April 19, 1998 3:06:03 PM PDT Additional Details : I wrote my own fix to not change extra periods to underscores when downloading a file. Feel free to incorporate this into your version of Mozilla. Forgive me if this has been addressed previously. I did not see it in the Bugzilla query. This is a context diff in function fe_URLtoLocalName in ns\cmd\winfe\fenet.cpp: *** c:\temp\fenet.cpp Mon Mar 30 17:57:42 1998 --- fenet.cpp Sun Apr 19 14:45:30 1998 *************** *** 268,277 **** #endif char *name = csName.GetBuffer(0); ! // replace extra periods in 8 character name with underscores for (idx =0 ; idx < csName.GetLength(); idx++) { if ((name[idx] == '.')||(name[idx] == ':')) name[idx] = '_'; } csName.ReleaseBuffer(-1); *csURL = csName + csExt; --- 268,285 ---- #endif char *name = csName.GetBuffer(0); ! #ifdef XP_WIN16 ! // replace extra periods and colons in 8 character name with underscores for (idx =0 ; idx < csName.GetLength(); idx++) { if ((name[idx] == '.')||(name[idx] == ':')) name[idx] = '_'; } + #else + // replace extra colons in 8 character name with underscores + // This fixes the filename mangling problem in Win32 since it can handle multiple periods. -BCW 04/01/1998 + for (idx =0 ; idx < csName.GetLength(); idx++) { + if (name[idx] == ':') name[idx] = '_'; + } + #endif csName.ReleaseBuffer(-1); *csURL = csName + csExt; Updated by Garrett Arch Blythe (blythe@netscape.com) on Thursday, June 11, 1998 4:24:09 PM PDT Additional Details : Checked a modified fix into Mozilla tree. Thanks Brian!

mid-air collision ? / bugzilla cleanup Reopening (current State: resolved and no resolution)

fixed

*** Bug 257 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

VERIFIED due to no changes in over a year