[ngw] GW 8 - Little bug with attachments containing forward slash

[Randy Grein]

Legal name for a mac but just a bad idea. HFS uses a : to indicate  
folders IIRC.
Randy Grein

On Apr 7, 2010, at 5:35 AM, Peter Van Lone wrote:

> slashes are not legal characters in a file name. The fact that it  
> works AT ALL is remarkable to me. The sender should be enlightened.
>
> peter
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Jeffrey Sessler <Jeff at scrippscollege.edu 
> > wrote:
> Here's an interesting bug I found concerning attachment names with a  
> forward slash in them, and GW 8.0.1HP Webaccess. There are partial  
> problems in both the Mac and Windows clients too.
>
> I had a user with a email containing several attachments and she was  
> unable to view/open/save-as in Webaccess. Browser didn't seem to  
> matter.
>
> Both attachment names, as displayed in Webaccess, ended with a date  
> e.g. "My File for you 3/19/10.pdf"
>
> On webaccess, I could see the attachment names, but when I clicked  
> on view/open/save-as I'd get a 404-Object not found error.
> On Win/Mac GW 8 client, both attachments where there, but had names  
> shortened to just "10.PDF" , but they would still open and were  
> viewable.
>
> So, it appears that GroupWise is not handling the forward slash  
> properly when it appears in an attachment's name. For Webaccess it  
> results in an inability to access the attachment. For Win/Mac  
> Client, the attachment name gets mangled.
>
> best,
> Jeff
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> ngw mailing list
> ngw at ngwlist.com
> http://ngwlist.com/mailman/listinfo/ngw
>
> _______________________________________________
> ngw mailing list
> ngw at ngwlist.com
> http://ngwlist.com/mailman/listinfo/ngw

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://ngwlist.com/pipermail/ngw/attachments/20100407/e19ce750/attachment.html