{RESOLVED] Export Whitelist appends "..txt"

[SeanM]

Under Windows/XP, Firefox 6.0.2 and NoScript 2.1.2.9rc1, export of the whitelist to a non-suffixed DSN (such as "whitelist") appends "..txt" (2 dots) rather than ".txt" (one dot).



Export to a properly suffixed DSN, (such as "whitelist.txt") proceeds correctly.

[therube]

Confirmed, "whitelist..txt".
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:7.0) Gecko/20110910 SeaMonkey/2.4

(And not that I know what a DSN is?)

[SeanM]

Confirmed, "whitelist..txt".
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:7.0) Gecko/20110910 SeaMonkey/2.4

(And not that I know what a DSN is?)

Must have brain-fog flashed back to IBM mainframe MVS ....

[Tom T.]

... But it doesn't matter, at least in Win XP. The file still saves, and when 2-clicked, Notepad opens it nicely.
When Windows parses file extensions, it ignores everything except the last dot and whatever's after that. This used to catch a lot of people with e-mail viruses, e. g.. an attachment JenniferLopezNude.jpg.vbs. The user sees the familiar and comfortable .jpg extension, but Windows sees the Visual Basic Scripting extension and runs the VB script. = virus.

I agree that it still needs to be fixed, even in Win, and I'm assuming that Linux is less "forgiving".
Will flag this for Giorgio's attention as a bug. Thanks for the bug report, Sean.

[Giorgio Maone]

Investigating, thanks.

[Giorgio Maone]

Fixed in latest development build 2.1.3rc1.

[SeanM]

Fixed in latest development build 2.1.3rc1.

Installed and tested above build on Windows/XP/SP3. Export of whitelist anchors destination to the username, specifically

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<drive>:\Documents and Settings\<username>

with dataset name empty (for user-selection) and filetype(s) blank. Exported whitelist will have an appended ".txt" if no filetype suffix is provided.

Thanks for the solution !

[Tom T.]

SeanM, thanks for confirming the successful resolution of both whitelist export issues.
Also, thanks for reporting them, and for your previous bug reports here.

Because you are a frequent contributor, I'd like to add that you can mark your own topics "resolved", when the have been done so to your satisfaction.
Just click "edit" on your OP, add the word to the title as I've done, (preview and proofread it), and click Submit.
No big deal - we're happy to do it -- but it calls attention to the resolution that much sooner for others who may be browsing the board and for other team members to know that a thread no longer needs attention. But it's not mandatory1

Again, thanks for your many contributions to improving NoScript.