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POHow do I make Firefox open a file with an ampersand in the filename?
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    copied!<p>I've written some Ruby code to inspect ZIP-files as part of an internal company process. The way we usually launch this code is from a web browser. When you click to download the file, you select "open with" and specify the full path to a small batch file. This one-line batch file looks like this:</p> <pre><code>\\mathworks\public\Matthew_Simoneau\ruby-1.8.7-p72-i386-mswin32\bin\ruby.exe "%~dp0inspect.rb" %1 </code></pre> <p>As far as I know, this technique is the only easy way to launch my Ruby code on a Windows machine which doesn't have Ruby installed, but does have access to the company internal filesystem.</p> <p>I'm having a problem when the filename of the ZIP file contains an ampersand.</p> <p>This works fine on IE and Chrome, where the above line gets "expanded" out to the following:</p> <pre><code>C:\WINNT\Profiles\matthew\Desktop&gt;\\mathworks\public\Matthew_Simoneau\ruby-1.8.7-p72-i386-mswin32\bin\ruby.exe "\\mathworks\public\Matthew_Simoneau\sandbox\inspect\inspect.rb" "C:\WINNT\Profiles\matthew\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\VNATJ3X0\park&amp;park_paper_LMI_neuralN[1].zip" </code></pre> <p>On Firefox, however, everything after the ampersand in the filename gets dropped on the floor:</p> <pre><code>H:\&gt;\\mathworks\public\Matthew_Simoneau\ruby-1.8.7-p72-i386-mswin32\bin\ruby.exe "\\mathworks\public\Matthew_Simoneau\sandbox\inspect\inspect.rb" C:\Temp\park </code></pre> <p>I've tried putting the <code>%1</code> in quotes in the batch file, but that has no effect.</p> <p>I suspect this is a bug in Firefox. I've searched the Firefox bug list, but didn't find anything.</p> <p>Am I doing something wrong here? Is this a Firefox bug? If so, is there a way I can work around it? Is there a more robust way to launch my Ruby code from a web browser?</p> <p><strong>Update:</strong> I filed <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514443" rel="nofollow noreferrer">a bug report</a> with Bugzilla@Mozilla, but there hasn't been a response yet.</p>
 

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