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note: fixing bug 238482 will also fix this one. :)

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Title:
  Filelist Download Failure From Specific Usernames

Status in ApexDC++ - The Pinnacle of File-Sharing:
  New
Status in DC++:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  There is an issue with DC++ when a user chooses a nickname that
  happens to be a Windows Reserved Keyword.  For example, if a user
  chooses a nickname from the following list:

  CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8,
  COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, LPT9 (Reference:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename#Reserved_characters_and_words)

  a Windows user trying to download the filelist from a user with one of
  these nicks will fail because the filename is in the format of
  *nick*.xml.bz2 (ex. "aux.xml.bz2"), which is disallowed under Windows.
  When DC++ attempts to write the remote user's filelist to disk, the
  download will hang because Windows blocks the writing of this file to
  disk.  There is no error message displayed to the user during this
  process and the reasons for the download to hang are not clearly
  apparent.  The person that is using this nick will have no issues,
  because their filelist is named files.xml.bz2 which is allowed.

  Ideally, the above list would be disallowed as a username so that
  Windows users can download their filelists.  Other clients would need
  to adopt this blacklist as well to be good net citizens towards
  Windows users.

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