Last modified: 2006-06-04 01:28:10 UTC
The count on the number of characters in a filename is stopped at the first period. e.g. trying to upload an image called "D. A. Pennebaker CU.jpg" returns the error "File names must be at least three letters." After some slight experimentation I found out that removing the periods allowed the file to be uploaded, hence this bug report. I doubt this is very common (or, for that matter, very critical); I can think of only a few people who go by initials, and I imagine most people would try renaming the file. Maybe just add a short note to the upload page?
Better handling may be to strip all periods but the last.
Erm. That's what I mean; that's what I had to figure out to do. :-)(In reply to comment #1)
*** Bug 1883 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 2040 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The software should simply count the length to the last period, not the first. I ran into this bug today with [[Image:E.T. poster.jpg]]
in my wiki I allow .tar.gz files, but when I try to upload a file like pfbgimage-0.02.tar.gz it tells me that ".02.tar.gz" is not allowed. So, its not a matter of renaming because it would mess with the convention of <packagename>-<versionnumber>.tar.gz the files shoudn´t be renamed and the file extension validator should parse the filename from right to left. (not necessarilly stopping at the first period from right to left - see the .tar.gz example)
I remember fixing this just before the 1.6.0 release.
