Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 42054
SaveAs dialog resolves strings like "tt:tt" as absolut URL.
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:31:09 UTC
If user types "tt:tt" in the SaveAs dialog it is treated as an absolut URL. After discussion with SBA and MBA there seems to be the following ways to handle the situation: 1) Leave it as it is, means if a string containing ':' is inserted in SaveAs dialog it is treated as absolut URL. So the office is not able to generate files with such names. 2) Let the dialog check whether there is a content provider related to the substring recognized as a protocol name, if there is no and the system accepts the string as a filename treat it as a file name. The inconvinience of the solution (1) is that if user inserts the same string in the OpenFile dialog, it is treated as a file name if such file exists. From other side usage of this symbol in a file name is not acceptable on Windows system, and very unusual on Unix systems. The second solution fits to the case of SaveAs dialog since it makes no sence to store a file to the URL that is not supported by UCB. The problem is that for the same string the behaviour will be different depending from whether the user has content provider registered for the protocol or not. From other side the optional content provider seems to be a very rare case as well.
SBA->MAV: As discussed, It was not me, but SB. I correct the CCs accordingly (removing myself, adding SB).
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