Question Problem with PDF attachments

rob parker wrote:

The Protect Attachments setting has no effect.
However, the presence of spaces in the pdf filename is the problem. And that's a problem - because we can't control filenames that people may have for their attachments.
It's very odd that this problem exists only for pdf filenames. The other samples on the test site (docx, xlsx, and txt files) all have spaces in the filenames yet work as expected.

I have tested it and have no problems when PDFs contain spaces and protect is disabled. I get only problems hen protect is enabled.
Tested with Chromium, Firefox and Opera.
But if you disable this option, it will not affect already uploaded PDFs. For these files the error remains.

Leen wrote:

I'm going to think that the file is damaged or incorrectly uploaded, the more so because I don't even inspect file name (numbers and letters only). (as I can see at sample_pdf)
or other way the file itself is somehow secured.

That's right, protected files get a long letter combination instead of the name and file ending.
 

Thanks Leen and Rich for your help with this.
Rich's last post seems to have nailed the problem - if protect attachments was on when the file was uploaded, the problem exists for pdf files with spaces in the filename. The second pdf in my test post, added later when protection was off, works as expected, and it has spaces in the filename.

The downloaded file with the cryptic filename is actually a pdf file; if you add ".pdf" to the end of the filename it will open correctly.

I think this behaviour is a bug in Kunena. Do the Kunena developers monitor the forum for issues such as this, or should I report this by some other means?

I had reported an error once, but since it seems to have only occurred in my tests, the ticket has been closed (please see here) . 
Please let me know if it is identical to your problem, then I will reopen it.

Hi rich, sorry for delay in replying; busy weekend.

I can't see your original post, only replies to it; but it seems like the same problem. I think a succinct description of it would be: Protect Attachments fails for PDF attachments with spaces in the filename.

Could you please reopen the bug report. It's something that should be fixed.

I reopened the ticket but did not change the title. Because in my retests, this problem occurred even without spaces in the filename.