Re: pgnus-0.33: multipart/mixed: usage of filename?

[Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>]

grossjohann@amaunet.cs.uni-dortmund.de writes:

>   Lars> Doing so would make sense, but if the file name characters are
>   Lars> properly translated and quoted, wouldn't it be nice to have
>   Lars> the full real names of the files available in the external
>   Lars> viewer?
> 
> >>>>> On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Edward J Sabol said:
> 
>   EJS> I would much rather have the real file name!
> 
> Well, rather than saving /etc/passwd in /tmp/emmXYZZY/passwd, saving
> /etc/passwd in /tmp/emmXYZZY/%etc%passwd would also be a possibility.
> Which is what Lars is suggesting, I think.  There's no security risk
> and you get the absolute pathname information.

Actually then I get a useless garbage version of the pathname. :-)
What if the filename contains %'s?

If Gnus has to encode the filename, let's go for a something that's
standard (UTF-7?) at least.

I'd prefer Gnus to save it as /tmp/emmXYZZY/etc/passwd instead (of
course removing all "../" in the filename for security), then I could
"cp -r /tmp/emmXYZZY/* /" if I wanted to.

/s