Filename field does not support parenthesis about content-disposition

[dougwilson]

Hi! Can you elaborate on your statement a bit? I can create a content disposition string with that file name just fine:

$ node -pe 'require("content-disposition")("myFile(1).jpg")'
attachment; filename="myFile(1).jpg"

[ruggertech]

the following code:

var contentDisposition = require('content-disposition');
var dispo = "attachment; filename=Chime%20(1).dmg";
console.log(contentDisposition.parse(dispo).parameters.filename);

fails with the error:

/node_modules/content-disposition/index.js:369
throw new TypeError('invalid parameter format')
^
TypeError: invalid parameter format
at Function.parse (node_modules/content-disposition/index.js:369:11)
at Object. (disposition.js:4:32)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.runMain as _onTimeout
at Timer.listOnTimeout as ontimeout

[dougwilson]

Ah, I see. Yes, that error is because it's an invalid HTTP Content-Disposition header. The characters ( and ) cannot be used outside of a quoted string. In fact, unless your filename has %20 literally in it, it looks like you are actually trying to parse the Content-Disposition that is part of a multipart/form-data request, which does not follow the same specification as the HTTP version of this header.

The issue #3 is tracking getting support for parsing the Content-Disposition from a multipart request, which is so insane because the various different web browsers don't even act the same, so it's a very difficult task to do.