Test Cases for HTTP Content-Disposition header field and the Encodings defined in RFC 2047 and RFC 2231/5987

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Browsers Tested

Unless stated otherwise, all tests were executed with the latest release versions of Firefox 3.6, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, Safari 5 and Opera 10.6 on a machine running Windows 7. For Konqueror, version 4.4 was tested on OpenSuse 10.3.

Test Result Summary

Test CaseFirefox 3.6.*Microsoft IE 8Opera 10.6Safari 5.0.*Konqueror 4.4.4Google Chrome 6.0.*
Summary60% passes, 24% failures, 14% warnings, 5% unsupported36% passes, 12% failures, 5% warnings, 45% unsupported71% passes, 10% failures, 12% warnings, 5% unsupported36% passes, 10% failures, 5% warnings, 48% unsupported90% passes, 0% failures, 5% warnings, 5% unsupported31% passes, 21% failures, 2% warnings, 45% unsupported
Content-Disposition: Disposition-Type Inlineinlonlypasspasspasspasspasspass
inlwithasciifilenamepass (uses the filename in subsequent 'save' operation) pass (filename information not used) pass (filename information not used) pass (filename information not used) pass (filename information not used) pass (filename information not used)
inlwithasciifilenamepdfpass (filename information not used (see Mozilla Bug 433613)) pass (filename information not used) pass (uses the filename in subsequent 'save' operation (when done through the UA's menu)) pass (uses the filename in subsequent 'save' operation (when done through the UA's menu)) pass (filename information not used) pass (uses the filename in subsequent 'save' operation)
Content-Disposition: Disposition-Type Attachmentattonlypasspasspasspasspasspass
attonly403pass (but displays a misleading error message (see Mozilla Bug 364354)) pass (but displays a misleading error message) fail (saves the content without warning) fail (saves the content without warning) warn (displays the content as if the header field wasn't present) pass (but displays a misleading error message)
attonlyucasepasspasspasspasspasspass
attwithasciifilenamepasspasspasspasspasspass
attwithasciifnescapedcharfail (apparently does not treat the backslash as escape character, replaces it with '_' (see Mozilla Bug 588389)) fail (apparently does not treat the backslash as escape character, replaces it with '_') passfail (apparently does not treat the backslash as escape character, replaces it with '-') passfail (saves "oo.html" (what's going on here?, see Chrome Issue 52577))
attwithasciifnescapedquotefail (apparently does not treat the backslash as escape character, replaces it with '_' (see Mozilla Bug 588389)) fail (apparently does not treat the backslash as escape character, replaces it with '_') passfail (apparently does not treat the backslash as escape character, replaces it with '-') passfail (fails to decode the filename completely, apparently parser being very confused (this may be the same bug as Chrome Issue 52577))
attwithfilenameandextparampasspasspasspasspasspass
attwithasciifilenameucasepasspasspasspasspasspass
attwithasciifilenamenqpass (accepts the unquoted value) pass (accepts the unquoted value) pass (accepts the unquoted value) pass (accepts the unquoted value) pass (accepts the unquoted value) pass (accepts the unquoted value)
attwithisofnplainpasspasspasspasspasspass
attwithutf8fnplainfail (decodes as UTF-8 (see Mozilla Bug 588409)) passpassfail (decodes as UTF-8) passfail (decodes as UTF-8)
attwithfnrawpctencapassfail (displays "foo-A.html") passpasspassfail (displays "foo-A.html" (see Chrome Issue 118))
attwithfnrawpctenclongpassfail (displays "foo-ä-€.html") passpasspassfail (displays "foo-ä-€.html" (see Chrome Issue 118))
attwithasciifilenamews1passpasspasspasspasspass
attwithasciifilenamews2passpasspasspasspassfail (detects "-foo.html")
attfnbrokentokenwarn (accepts the unquoted value) warn (accepts the unquoted value) warn (accepts the unquoted value) warn (accepts the unquoted value) passwarn (accepts the unquoted value)
Content-Disposition: Additional Parametersattcdateunsupported (seems to ignore the parameter (see Mozilla Bug 531353)) unsupported (seems to ignore the parameter) unsupported (seems to ignore the parameter) unsupported (seems to ignore the parameter) unsupported (seems to ignore the parameter) unsupported (seems to ignore the parameter)
attmdateunsupported (seems to ignore the parameter (see Mozilla Bug 531353)) unsupported (seems to ignore the parameter) unsupported (seems to ignore the parameter) unsupported (seems to ignore the parameter) unsupported (seems to ignore the parameter) unsupported (seems to ignore the parameter)
Content-Disposition: Disposition-Type Extensiondispextpassfail (does not treat it as 'attachment')fail (does not treat it as 'attachment')fail (does not treat it as 'attachment')passpass
RFC2231 Encoding: Character Setsattwithisofn2231isopassunsupportedpassunsupportedpassunsupported
attwithfn2231utf8passunsupportedpassunsupportedpassunsupported
attwithfn2231nocwarn (decodes as UTF-8) unsupportedwarn (decodes as 8bit encoding (ISO-8859-1?)) unsupportedpass (ignores the parameter) unsupported
attwithfn2231utf8comppassunsupportedpassunsupportedpassunsupported
attwithfn2231utf8-badfail (falls back to UTF-8) unsupportedwarn (displays the raw octet sequence as if it was ISO-8859-1 (which is internally treated as windows-1252, which does allow %82)) unsupportedwarn (displays the raw octet sequence as if it was ISO-8859-1) unsupported
attwithfn2231ws1fail (displays garbage) unsupportedpassunsupportedpassunsupported
attwithfn2231ws2passunsupportedpassunsupportedpassunsupported
attwithfn2231ws3passunsupportedpassunsupportedpassunsupported
attwithfn2231quotfail (tries to be helpful by removing the quotes) unsupportedpassunsupportedpassunsupported
attwithfn2231encmissingfail (sniffs the encoding as UTF-8) unsupportedfail (assumes a default of ISO-8859-1) unsupportedpassunsupported
RFC2231 Encoding: Continuationsattfncontpassunsupportedpassunsupportedpassunsupported
attfncontencpassunsupportedpassunsupportedpassunsupported
attfncontlzwarn (accepts leading zeros) unsupportedwarn (accepts leading zeros) unsupportedpassunsupported
attfncontncwarn (accepts gaps) unsupportedpassunsupportedpassunsupported
attfnconts1passunsupportedpassunsupportedpassunsupported
attfncontordfail (parameters apparently are expected to be ordered (see Mozilla Bug 588414)) unsupportedpassunsupportedpassunsupported
RFC2231 Encoding: Fallback Behaviourattfnbothwarn (picks the traditionally encoded value -- the first of both (see Mozilla Bug 588781)) unsupported (picks the traditionally encoded value -- the first of both) warn (picks the traditionally encoded value -- the first of both) unsupported (picks the traditionally encoded value -- the first of both) pass (picks the RFC 2231 encoded one) unsupported (picks the traditionally encoded value -- the first of both)
attfnboth2pass (picks the RFC2231 encoded value -- the first of both) fail (ignores the parameter (this indicates a parsing bug)) pass (picks the RFC2231 encoded value -- the first of both) unsupported (picks the traditionally encoded value -- the one it understands) pass (picks the RFC 2231 encoded one) fail (ignores the parameter (this indicates a parsing bug, see Chrome Bug 36903))
RFC2047 Encodingattrfc2047tokenfail (decodes it anyway to "foo-ä.html") warn (takes the whole value as filename, but does not decode it (replacing question marks by underscores)) fail (displays garbage ("=.htm")) warn (takes the whole value as filename, but does not decode it (replacing question marks by underscores)) pass (ignores the parameter) fail (decodes it anyway to "foo-ä.html")
attrfc2047quotedfail (decodes it anyway to "foo-ä.html") pass (takes the whole value as filename, but does not decode it) fail (displays garbage ("=.htm")) pass (takes the whole value as filename, but does not decode it) pass (takes the whole value as filename, but does not decode it) fail (decodes it anyway to "foo-ä.html")

Test Cases

Content-Disposition: Disposition-Type Inline

Various tests relating to the "inline" disposition type, see Section 2.1 of RFC 2183.

inlonly [TEST]

Content-Disposition: inline
Test Results
FF3pass
MSIE8pass
Operapass
Safaripass
Konqpass
Chromepass

'inline' only

This should be equivalent to not including the header at all.

inlwithasciifilename [TEST]

Content-Disposition: inline; filename="foo.html"
Test Results
FF3pass (uses the filename in subsequent 'save' operation)
MSIE8pass (filename information not used)
Operapass (filename information not used)
Safaripass (filename information not used)
Konqpass (filename information not used)
Chromepass (filename information not used)

'inline', specifying a filename of foo.html

Some UAs use this filename in a subsequent "save" operation.

inlwithasciifilenamepdf [TEST]

Content-Disposition: inline; filename="foo.pdf"
Test Results
FF3pass (filename information not used (see Mozilla Bug 433613))
MSIE8pass (filename information not used)
Operapass (uses the filename in subsequent 'save' operation (when done through the UA's menu))
Safaripass (uses the filename in subsequent 'save' operation (when done through the UA's menu))
Konqpass (filename information not used)
Chromepass (uses the filename in subsequent 'save' operation)

'inline', specifying a filename of foo.pdf

Some UAs use this filename in a subsequent "save" operation. This variation of the test checks whether whatever handles PDF display receives the filename information, and acts upon it (this was tested with the latest Acrobat Reader plugin, or, in the case of Chrome, using the builtin PDF handler).

Content-Disposition: Disposition-Type Attachment

Various tests relating to the "attchment" disposition type, see Section 2.2 of RFC 2183.

attonly [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment
Test Results
FF3pass
MSIE8pass
Operapass
Safaripass
Konqpass
Chromepass

'attachment' only

UA should offer to download the resource.

attonly403 [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment
Test Results
FF3pass (but displays a misleading error message (see Mozilla Bug 364354))
MSIE8pass (but displays a misleading error message)
Operafail (saves the content without warning)
Safarifail (saves the content without warning)
Chromepass (but displays a misleading error message)
Konqwarn (displays the content as if the header field wasn't present)

'attachment' only, but returned with a 403 status.

UA should report the server status.

attonlyucase [TEST]

Content-Disposition: ATTACHMENT
Test Results
FF3pass
MSIE8pass
Operapass
Safaripass
Konqpass
Chromepass

'ATTACHMENT' only

UA should offer to download the resource.

attwithasciifilename [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="foo.html"
Test Results
FF3pass
MSIE8pass
Operapass
Safaripass
Konqpass
Chromepass

'attachment', specifying a filename of foo.html

UA should offer to download the resource as "foo.html".

attwithasciifnescapedchar [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="f\oo.html"
Test Results
FF3fail (apparently does not treat the backslash as escape character, replaces it with '_' (see Mozilla Bug 588389))
MSIE8fail (apparently does not treat the backslash as escape character, replaces it with '_')
Operapass
Safarifail (apparently does not treat the backslash as escape character, replaces it with '-')
Konqpass
Chromefail (saves "oo.html" (what's going on here?, see Chrome Issue 52577))

'attachment', specifying a filename of f\oo.html (the first 'o' being escaped)

UA should offer to download the resource as "foo.html".

attwithasciifnescapedquote [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="\"quoting\" tested.html"
Test Results
FF3fail (apparently does not treat the backslash as escape character, replaces it with '_' (see Mozilla Bug 588389))
MSIE8fail (apparently does not treat the backslash as escape character, replaces it with '_')
Operapass
Safarifail (apparently does not treat the backslash as escape character, replaces it with '-')
Konqpass
Chromefail (fails to decode the filename completely, apparently parser being very confused (this may be the same bug as Chrome Issue 52577))

'attachment', specifying a filename of \"quoting\" tested.html (using double quotes around "quoting" to test... quoting)

UA should offer to download the resource as something like '"quoting" tested.html' (stripping the quotes may be ok for security reasons, but getting confused by them is not.

attwithfilenameandextparam [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; foo="bar"; filename="foo.html"
Test Results
FF3pass
MSIE8pass
Operapass
Safaripass
Konqpass
Chromepass

'attachment', specifying a filename of foo.html and an extension parameter "foo" which should be ignored (see Section 2.8 of RFC 2183.).

UA should offer to download the resource as "foo.html".

attwithasciifilenameucase [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; FILENAME="foo.html"
Test Results
FF3pass
MSIE8pass
Operapass
Safaripass
Konqpass
Chromepass

'attachment', specifying a filename of foo.html

UA should offer to download the resource as "foo.html".

attwithasciifilenamenq [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=foo.html
Test Results
FF3pass (accepts the unquoted value)
MSIE8pass (accepts the unquoted value)
Operapass (accepts the unquoted value)
Safaripass (accepts the unquoted value)
Konqpass (accepts the unquoted value)
Chromepass (accepts the unquoted value)

'attachment', specifying a filename of foo.html using a token instead of a quoted-string.

This is invalid according to Section 19.5.1 of RFC2616, but probably can be considered a specification bug. It is legal according to RFC 2183 and will be in draft-reschke-rfc2183-in-http.

attwithisofnplain [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="foo-ä.html"
Test Results
FF3pass
MSIE8pass
Operapass
Safaripass
Konqpass
Chromepass

'attachment', specifying a filename of foo-ä.html, using plain ISO-8859-1

UA should offer to download the resource as "foo-ä.html".

attwithutf8fnplain [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="foo-ä.html"
Test Results
FF3fail (decodes as UTF-8 (see Mozilla Bug 588409))
MSIE8pass
Operapass
Safarifail (decodes as UTF-8)
Konqpass
Chromefail (decodes as UTF-8)

'attachment', specifying a filename of foo-ä.html, which happens to be foo-ä.html using UTF-8 encoding.

UA should offer to download the resource as "foo-ä.html". Displaying "foo-ä.html" instead indicates that the UA tried to be smart by detecting something that happens to look like UTF-8.

attwithfnrawpctenca [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="foo-%41.html"
Test Results
FF3pass
MSIE8fail (displays "foo-A.html")
Operapass
Safaripass
Konqpass
Chromefail (displays "foo-A.html" (see Chrome Issue 118))

'attachment', specifying a filename of foo-%41.html

UA should offer to download the resource as "foo-%41.html". Displaying "foo-A.html" instead would indicate that the UA has attempted to percent-decode the parameter.

attwithfnrawpctenclong [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="foo-%c3%a4-%e2%82%ac.html"
Test Results
FF3pass
MSIE8fail (displays "foo-ä-€.html")
Operapass
Safaripass
Konqpass
Chromefail (displays "foo-ä-€.html" (see Chrome Issue 118))

'attachment', specifying a filename of foo-%c3%a4-%e2%82%ac.html, using raw percent encoded UTF-8 to represent foo-ä-€.html

UA should offer to download the resource as "foo-%c3%a4-%e2%82%ac.html". Displaying "foo-ä-€.html" instead would indicate that the UA has attempted to percent-decode the parameter (using UTF-8). Displaying something else would indicate that the UA tried to percent-decode, but used a different encoding.

attwithasciifilenamews1 [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename ="foo.html"
Test Results
FF3pass
MSIE8pass
Operapass
Safaripass
Konqpass
Chromepass

'attachment', specifying a filename of foo.html, with one blank space before the equals character.

UA should offer to download the resource as "foo.html".

attwithasciifilenamews2 [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename= "foo.html"
Test Results
FF3pass
MSIE8pass
Operapass
Safaripass
Konqpass
Chromefail (detects "-foo.html")

'attachment', specifying a filename of foo.html, with one blank space after the equals character.

UA should offer to download the resource as "foo.html".

attfnbrokentoken [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=foo[1](2).html
Test Results
FF3warn (accepts the unquoted value)
MSIE8warn (accepts the unquoted value)
Operawarn (accepts the unquoted value)
Safariwarn (accepts the unquoted value)
Konqpass
Chromewarn (accepts the unquoted value)

'attachment', specifying a filename of foo[1](2).html, but missing the quotes. Also, "[", "]", "(" and ")" are not allowed in the HTTP token production.

This is invalid according to Section 19.5.1 of RFC2616, so UAs should ignore it.

Content-Disposition: Additional Parameters

Various tests relating to the additional parameters defined in Section 2 of RFC 2183.

attcdate [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; creation-date="Wed, 12 Feb 1997 16:29:51 -0500"
Test Results
FF3unsupported (seems to ignore the parameter (see Mozilla Bug 531353))
MSIE8unsupported (seems to ignore the parameter)
Operaunsupported (seems to ignore the parameter)
Safariunsupported (seems to ignore the parameter)
Konqunsupported (seems to ignore the parameter)
Chromeunsupported (seems to ignore the parameter)

'attachment', plus creation-date (see Section 2.4 of RFC 2183)

UA should offer to download the resource. When doing so, the creation date should be set to 12 Feb 1997.

attmdate [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; modification-date="Wed, 12 Feb 1997 16:29:51 -0500"
Test Results
FF3unsupported (seems to ignore the parameter (see Mozilla Bug 531353))
MSIE8unsupported (seems to ignore the parameter)
Operaunsupported (seems to ignore the parameter)
Safariunsupported (seems to ignore the parameter)
Konqunsupported (seems to ignore the parameter)
Chromeunsupported (seems to ignore the parameter)

'attachment', plus modification-date (see Section 2.5 of RFC 2183)

UA should offer to download the resource. When doing so, the modification date should be set to 12 Feb 1997.

Content-Disposition: Disposition-Type Extension

A test checking behavior for disposition type extensions, which should be treated as "attachment", see Section 2.8 of RFC 2183.

dispext [TEST]

Content-Disposition: foobar
Test Results
FF3pass
MSIE8fail (does not treat it as 'attachment')
Operafail (does not treat it as 'attachment')
Safarifail (does not treat it as 'attachment')
Konqpass
Chromepass

'foobar' only

This should be equivalent to using "attachment".

RFC2231 Encoding: Character Sets

Various tests using the parameter value encoding defined in Section 4 of RFC 2231.

attwithisofn2231iso [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename*=iso-8859-1''foo-%E4.html
Test Results
FF3pass
MSIE8unsupported
Operapass
Safariunsupported
Konqpass
Chromeunsupported

'attachment', specifying a filename of foo-ä.html, using RFC2231 encoded ISO-8859-1

UA should offer to download the resource as "foo-ä.html".

attwithfn2231utf8 [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename*=UTF-8''foo-%c3%a4-%e2%82%ac.html
Test Results
FF3pass
MSIE8unsupported
Operapass
Safariunsupported
Konqpass
Chromeunsupported

'attachment', specifying a filename of foo-ä-€.html, using RFC2231 encoded UTF-8

UA should offer to download the resource as "foo-ä-€.html".

attwithfn2231noc [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename*=''foo-%c3%a4-%e2%82%ac.html
Test Results
FF3warn (decodes as UTF-8)
MSIE8unsupported
Operawarn (decodes as 8bit encoding (ISO-8859-1?))
Safariunsupported
Konqpass (ignores the parameter)
Chromeunsupported

Behavior is undefined in RFC 2231, the charset part is missing, although UTF-8 was used.

attwithfn2231utf8comp [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename*=UTF-8''foo-a%cc%88.html
Test Results
FF3pass
MSIE8unsupported
Operapass
Safariunsupported
Konqpass
Chromeunsupported

'attachment', specifying a filename of foo-ä.html, using RFC2231 encoded UTF-8, but choosing the decomposed form (lowercase a plus COMBINING DIAERESIS) -- on a Windows target system, this should be translated to the preferred Unicode normal form (composed).

UA should offer to download the resource as "foo-ä.html".

attwithfn2231utf8-bad [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename*=iso-8859-1''foo-%c3%a4-%e2%82%ac.html
Test Results
FF3fail (falls back to UTF-8)
MSIE8unsupported
Operawarn (displays the raw octet sequence as if it was ISO-8859-1 (which is internally treated as windows-1252, which does allow %82))
Safariunsupported
Konqwarn (displays the raw octet sequence as if it was ISO-8859-1)
Chromeunsupported

'attachment', specifying a filename of foo-ä-€.html, using RFC2231 encoded UTF-8, but declaring ISO-8859-1

The octet %82 does not represent a valid ISO-8859-1 code point, so the UA should really ignore the parameter.

attwithfn2231ws1 [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename *=UTF-8''foo-%c3%a4.html
Test Results
FF3fail (displays garbage)
MSIE8unsupported
Operapass
Safariunsupported
Konqpass
Chromeunsupported

'attachment', specifying a filename of foo-ä.html, using RFC2231 encoded UTF-8, with whitespace before "*="

The parameter is invalid, thus should be ignored.

attwithfn2231ws2 [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename*= UTF-8''foo-%c3%a4.html
Test Results
FF3pass
MSIE8unsupported
Operapass
Safariunsupported
Konqpass
Chromeunsupported

'attachment', specifying a filename of foo-ä.html, using RFC2231 encoded UTF-8, with whitespace after "*="

UA should offer to download the resource as "foo-ä.html".

attwithfn2231ws3 [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename* =UTF-8''foo-%c3%a4.html
Test Results
FF3pass
MSIE8unsupported
Operapass
Safariunsupported
Konqpass
Chromeunsupported

'attachment', specifying a filename of foo-ä.html, using RFC2231 encoded UTF-8, with whitespace inside "* ="

UA should offer to download the resource as "foo-ä.html".

attwithfn2231quot [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename*="UTF-8''foo-%c3%a4.html"
Test Results
FF3fail (tries to be helpful by removing the quotes)
MSIE8unsupported
Operapass
Safariunsupported
Konqpass
Chromeunsupported

'attachment', specifying a filename of foo-ä.html, using RFC2231 encoded UTF-8, with double quotes around the parameter value.

The parameter is invalid, thus should be ignored.

attwithfn2231encmissing [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename*=''foo-%c3%a4.html
Test Results
FF3fail (sniffs the encoding as UTF-8)
MSIE8unsupported
Operafail (assumes a default of ISO-8859-1)
Safariunsupported
Konqpass
Chromeunsupported

'attachment', specifying a filename of foo-ä.html, using RFC2231 encoded UTF-8, but leaving out the charset field.

The parameter is invalid, thus should be ignored.

RFC2231 Encoding: Continuations

Various tests using the parameter value continuation efined in Section 3 of RFC 2231.

attfncont [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename*0="foo."; filename*1="html"
Test Results
FF3pass
MSIE8unsupported
Operapass
Safariunsupported
Konqpass
Chromeunsupported

'attachment', specifying a filename of foo.html, using RFC2231-style parameter continuations.

UA should offer to download the resource as "foo.html".

attfncontenc [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename*0*=UTF-8''foo-%c3%a4; filename*1=".html"
Test Results
FF3pass
MSIE8unsupported
Operapass
Safariunsupported
Konqpass
Chromeunsupported

'attachment', specifying a filename of foo-ä.html, using both RFC2231-style parameter continuations and UTF-8 encoding.

UA should offer to download the resource as "foo-ä.html".

attfncontlz [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename*0="foo"; filename*01="bar"
Test Results
FF3warn (accepts leading zeros)
MSIE8unsupported
Operawarn (accepts leading zeros)
Safariunsupported
Konqpass
Chromeunsupported

'attachment', specifying a filename of foo (the parameter filename*01 should be ignored because of the leading zero)

UA should offer to download the resource as "foo".

attfncontnc [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename*0="foo"; filename*2="bar"
Test Results
FF3warn (accepts gaps)
MSIE8unsupported
Operapass
Safariunsupported
Konqpass
Chromeunsupported

'attachment', specifying a filename of foo (the parameter filename*2 because there's no filename*1 parameter)

UA should offer to download the resource as "foo".

attfnconts1 [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename*1="foo."; filename*2="html"
Test Results
FF3pass
MSIE8unsupported
Operapass
Safariunsupported
Konqpass
Chromeunsupported

'attachment' (the filename* parameters should be ignored because filename*0 is missing)

UA should offer to download, not getting the filename from the header.

attfncontord [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename*1="bar"; filename*0="foo"
Test Results
FF3fail (parameters apparently are expected to be ordered (see Mozilla Bug 588414))
MSIE8unsupported
Operapass
Safariunsupported
Konqpass
Chromeunsupported

'attachment', specifying a filename of foobar

UA should offer to download the resource as "foobar".

RFC2231 Encoding: Fallback Behaviour

This tests how the UA behaves when the same parameter name appear both in traditional and RFC 2231 extended format.

attfnboth [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="foo-ae.html"; filename*=UTF-8''foo-%c3%a4.html
Test Results
FF3warn (picks the traditionally encoded value -- the first of both (see Mozilla Bug 588781))
MSIE8unsupported (picks the traditionally encoded value -- the first of both)
Operawarn (picks the traditionally encoded value -- the first of both)
Safariunsupported (picks the traditionally encoded value -- the first of both)
Konqpass (picks the RFC 2231 encoded one)
Chromeunsupported (picks the traditionally encoded value -- the first of both)

'attachment', specifying a filename of foo-ae.html in the traditional format, and foo-ä.html in RFC2231 format.

Section 4.2 of RFC 5987 suggests that the RFC 2231/5987 encoded parameter ("filename*") should take precedence when understood.

attfnboth2 [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename*=UTF-8''foo-%c3%a4.html; filename="foo-ae.html"
Test Results
FF3pass (picks the RFC2231 encoded value -- the first of both)
MSIE8fail (ignores the parameter (this indicates a parsing bug))
Operapass (picks the RFC2231 encoded value -- the first of both)
Safariunsupported (picks the traditionally encoded value -- the one it understands)
Konqpass (picks the RFC 2231 encoded one)
Chromefail (ignores the parameter (this indicates a parsing bug, see Chrome Bug 36903))

'attachment', specifying a filename of foo-ae.html in the traditional format, and foo-ä.html in RFC2231 format.

Section 4.2 of RFC 5987 suggests that the RFC 2231/5987 encoded parameter ("filename*") should take precedence when understood.

RFC2047 Encoding

These tests RFC 2047 style encoding.

Note that according to Section 5 of RFC 2047, this encoding does not apply here: An 'encoded-word' MUST NOT appear within a 'quoted-string'., and An 'encoded-word' MUST NOT be used in parameter of a MIME Content-Type or Content-Disposition field, or in any structured field body except within a 'comment' or 'phrase'.

Therefore, these tests are only be present in order to check whether the UA by mistake tries to implement RFC 2047.

attrfc2047token [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename==?ISO-8859-1?Q?foo-=E4.html?=
Test Results
FF3fail (decodes it anyway to "foo-ä.html")
MSIE8warn (takes the whole value as filename, but does not decode it (replacing question marks by underscores))
Operafail (displays garbage ("=.htm"))
Safariwarn (takes the whole value as filename, but does not decode it (replacing question marks by underscores))
Konqpass (ignores the parameter)
Chromefail (decodes it anyway to "foo-ä.html")

Uses RFC 2047 style encoded word. "=" is invalid inside the token production, so this is invalid.

attrfc2047quoted [TEST]

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="=?ISO-8859-1?Q?foo-=E4.html?="
Test Results
FF3fail (decodes it anyway to "foo-ä.html")
MSIE8pass (takes the whole value as filename, but does not decode it)
Operafail (displays garbage ("=.htm"))
Safaripass (takes the whole value as filename, but does not decode it)
Konqpass (takes the whole value as filename, but does not decode it)
Chromefail (decodes it anyway to "foo-ä.html")

Uses RFC 2047 style encoded word, using the quoted-string production.

Test Case Generation

Both this document and the indiviual test "scripts" are generated from one single XML source (tc2231.xml), using an XSLT2 transformation (tc2231.xslt).

To generate the files, an XSLT2 processor such as Saxon 9 is needed. Copy both files into an empty directory, then run:

saxon9 tc2231.xml tc2231.xslt > index.html

Note that this will also generate a set of "asis" files that contain the actual test cases. These can be served using the Apache httpd mod_asis module.