Download file with special characters in the file name

[Ray Clark]

My file download works good, except when certain characters are in the file name.

When I have the following characters in the file name Firefox replaces the characters with an underscore. Does anyone know why???

The characters that don't work are: * < > | / : ; ? \ "

So my file name is ExportTest*Asterisk and Firefox changes it to ExportTest_Asterisk

(I'm sorry if this should have been posted in another forum, I wasn't sure which one to pic for this question.)

Here is my code snippet:

fileName = "ExportTest*Asterisk.csv";
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" + fileName);

[Paul Clapham]

I would guess that's because those characters aren't allowed in real file names in most file systems.

[Ray Clark]

Thank you, I knew that some of these weren't allowed in UNIX (I haven't used UNIX to create files in a few years). I didn't realize that Windows doesn't allow these either.

[Bear Bibeault]

OS X allows all but the slash and colon, but it's best to stick to normal characters that all platforms support.

[Ray Clark]

Thank you Bear. BTW, I really like the redesign of the forum that you have in Beta.