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Bug
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Resolution: Obsolete
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Low
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5.1.3, 5.8.17
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3
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Severity 3 - Minor
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NOTE: This bug report is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding bug report.
Summary of bug
Usually, in the file system, the user wouldn't be able to add certain special characters (like '/'). However, in Confluence, once an attachment has been added, they can do that. This would result in the attachment being unable to be found.
Steps to replicate
These steps would use the slash ('/') as an example of a special character
- Attach a file into your Confluence page
- At the attachments page, click on the 'Properties' of the attachment
- Edit the name of the attachment so that there is a '/' in the name of the attachment
- Save the changes, and then try to access the attachment
- is duplicated by
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CONFSERVER-27883 Attachments with plus sign in the file name are unaccessible
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- Closed
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CONFSERVER-27887 Attachment unaccessible after add a '/' in the file name
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- Closed
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- relates to
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CONFCLOUD-29548 Confluence allows changing of attachment name to special characters that are usually not permitted
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- Closed
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CONFSERVER-32110 Error When Downloading All Attachments if one of the attachments has invalid characters in the file name on Windows
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- Closed
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Thank you for your interest in this ticket. The Confluence Server and Data Center team released a major upgrade to the editor in 6.14. Due to the age of this ticket and/or lack of updates, we suspect that this issue is no longer relevant or was resolved as a result of the upgrade and are now closing this ticket.
If this issue is still a problem in your Confluence instance in version 6.15 or later, please tag me in your comment and we can reopen this ticket for review.
You can read more about the editor upgrade in the 6.14 Release Notes.
Thanks
Makisa Appleton | Senior Product Manager, Confluence Server and Data Center