unable to correctly upload a file containing a slash ("/")

[roddi@…]

Hi,

Ok, first let's put the discussion aside why someone would want to have a filename containing a slash. I know it's stupid, especially on UNIX-like systems but at least on Mac OS X it is possible to have them and users sooner or later do anything that's possible…

Summary:
Is impossible to upload a file containing a slash correctly.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. create a file called a/b.txt (see screenshot)

2. attach it

Expected Results:

the attached file should be called a/b.txt

Actual Results:

the attached file is be called b.txt

Notes:

1. I have attached the file from the screenshot

2. This might be a duplicate of Ticket #2981

3. My configuration:

Server:

Power Mac G4 Mac OS X 10.4.7
running trac 0.9

Client:

iMac Intel Mac OS X 10.4.7
Safari 2.0.4

regards,

Roddi

[roddi@…]

the file that is originally called "a/b.txt"

[roddi@…]

screenshot of a Finder window containing the example file

[anonymous]

from the shell:

roddi@sauron ~/Desktop/example % ls -l 
total 1
-rw-r--r--   1 roddi  ilink  7 Aug  3 11:12 a:b.txt

[eblot]

​RFC1867 which documents file upload from an HTML form is not really clear about how to deal with filenames. Non-ASCII chars should be encoded, but the '/' and the ':' chars are pure ASCII. I did not manage to find references about this MacOS specific issue.

However, I don't think the server can store a file with a filename that contains '/' characters, as I don't see how a non-Macintosh computer could deal with such a pathname at download time.

The best option to preserve the client platform interoperability for now would be to follow the RFC1867 proposal for non-ASCII filenames: "the file name might be approximated".

'/' and ':' could be replaced with a OS neutral character such as the underscore.

[cboos]

We don't want to support filenames with "/" inside, as they're really not portable and it will break the assumption we're making for the attachment URLs.

If the error message is not clear, we could improve it.