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The latest Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird cut filenames at the first space when files are downloaded via scripts. Apparently this is "proper behaviour" according to RFC, and the fact that it breaks most download scripts on the net doesn't seem to bother them much. It's been reported as a bug by several people (see this), and they resolved it with a WONTFIX.

Anyway, this affects the hold download script here at the forum. To fix it, you have to quote the filename and use RFC 2231 encoding (space = %20). (I think you can get away with just quoting it, tho.)
11-28-2003 at 07:22 PM
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Just copy the URL and use wget. :P

Okay, okay... I'll put it on my list.


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11-28-2003 at 07:24 PM
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Thankee!

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11-28-2003 at 07:32 PM
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Try it now, and let me know if it's better.

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11-28-2003 at 07:49 PM
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Hm. It doesn't break at space now, but I think that's because there are no spaces. All spaces come out as actual %20's in the filename. Seems weird the Mozilla guys would tell people to do something that doesn't work.

You could try removing either the encoding or the quoting, if you used both.
11-28-2003 at 10:06 PM
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