Bug 44106

Summary:	zero length file is created or existing file emptied.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Anne CHEYLUS <crouzeix>
Component:	netscape	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1	CC:	rvokal
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://generic.labs.pulltheplug.com/zen/evil.html
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Description Anne CHEYLUS 2001-06-11 12:30:10 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19-6.2.1 i686)

Description of problem:
when I load this page, it creates a file in my home directory.
If the file already existed, it is emptied. Here the file name
is zen.was.here, but another name could have been used.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.launch netscape
2.enter the url http://generic.labs.pulltheplug.com/zen/evil.html
3.check my home directory for the file zen.was.here
	

Actual Results:  A zero length file named zen.was.here was created

Expected Results:  No file created in my home directory.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-06-12 17:06:32 UTC

Please report this to netscape at:

http://help.netscape.com/forms/bug-client.html

We don't have the netscape source code; there isn't anything we can do about it.