Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 115079
Crash when opening files with nonstandard file extensions
Last modified: 2010-10-15 12:57:36 UTC
OpenOffice.org Calc crashes whenever the user attempts to open a spreadsheet with a nonstandard filename extension, or without a filename extension. This problem occurs quite often when opening a spreadsheet which has been dynamically generated and named by a web server. For example, the popular MicroStrategy web application lets users download dynamically generated HTML and Excel spreadsheets, but it doesn't give these resources a filename extension. Reproducibility: Always Steps to reproduce: 1. Take an Excel (.xls) or HTML (.html) spreadsheet, and rename it to remove the filename extension, or give it a nonstandard extension (such as .foo) 2. Use OpenOffice.org Calc to open the renamed file. This can be done by via the command line (e.g., "/usr/bin/oocalc some_spreadsheet.foo") or by File->Open and selecting it with the file selection dialog. Observed behaviour: 3. The OpenOffice.org Document Recovery pops up to say, "Due to an unexpected error, OpenOffice.org crashed..." Expected behaviour: 3. OpenOffice.org Calc should have successfully opened the file. I think this problem may be unique to Calc. I'm not able to reproduce the problem in Writer.
dup *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 115078 ***
Closing dup.