Expander cant handle password protected archives.

[streak]

Expander cant handle password protected archives [ rar / 7z ]. It just freezes on password protected archives.

[korli]

Added handling in hrev38876. Tested with zip archives only. Please check.

[luroh]

hrev38885, gcc2, VMware. Although none of them cause any freeze, I'm unable to extract password protected zip, rar and 7z files using Expander. Attaching my test files for convenience, the password is 'asdf'.

[luroh]

password for the archives is: asdf

[korli]

On Linux, zip.zip gives this message: skipping: zip.txt unsupported compression method 99

On Haiku, unrar seems unhappy with the password asdf, not related to Expander (I checked the md5sum)

7z.7z works for me with Expander.

[luroh]

Strange, I can download and extract all three files on Linux (Ubuntu 10.04) and Windows (Win7 + WinRAR) but none of them extracts successfully in Haiku (gcc2).

[korli]

Replying to luroh:

Strange, I can download and extract all three files on Linux (Ubuntu 10.04) and Windows (Win7 + WinRAR) but none of them extracts successfully in Haiku (gcc2).

I trust you :) Please check then with command line compression tools on Haiku.

On Linux, I checked with "UnZip 5.52 of 28 February 2005". What are the tools you use on Linux?

[luroh]

I have tried Expander and all command line tools I could find in Haiku gcc2 without being able to decompress any of the files. Any pointers how to decompress the 7z file successfully from Terminal?

On Linux, 7-Zip 9.04 beta takes care of the zip and 7z files, UNRAR 3.90 beta 2 (non-free) is needed for the rar file.

[korli]

We might need to update unzip to 6.0 and unrar to 3.9.10. The latter might be externalized as an optional package as I don't think we change anything.

[luroh]

I have "UnZip 6.00 of 20 April 2009, by Debian" installed on my Ubuntu system as well, and that version produces the same error for the zip file like you saw in 5.52, 'unsupported compression method 99'.

[luroh]

To be fair, a vanilla Ubuntu install (I just checked Ubuntu 10.10 beta) can't decompress any of the files either (both 7-Zip and UNRAR have been added manually by me at some point) and Windows can only deal with the zip file out of the box.

[korli]

Then you should better use compatible test files to actually verify this bug.

[luroh]

Indeed, 7-Zip may be responsible for creating nasty zip files, I am uploading a new one created using Zip 3.0 under Linux, it decompresses fine in Haiku. A friend created the rar file for me using WinRAR 3.91 beta 1 under Windows XP, I am uploading a new one created using WinXP + WinRAR 3.93, it however still doesn't decompress in Haiku (as you've stated already, we may need a newer version of unrar). As for 7z, I have no idea how to create a more compatible test file.

[luroh]

Zip 3.0, Linux

[luroh]

WinRAR 3.93, WinXP

[korli]

Haiku includes a command line tool:

7za a 7z-2.7z 7z.txt -pasdf

[luroh]

Ah, thanks, turns out it isn't included in the bare-bones image by default. I added the optional package P7zip and now the 7z.7z file works as well.

[Bth8]

I had no trouble expanding the passworded zip, but I can't expand the passworded RAR. It creates a listing just fine and then prompts me for a password, but after I enter the password, it just closes. No files are extracted.

[siarzhuk]

Replying to Bth8:

I had no trouble expanding the passworded zip, but I can't expand the passworded RAR. It creates a listing just fine and then prompts me for a password, but after I enter the password, it just closes. No files are extracted.

That means that extraction was failed because CRC errors. Default behaviour of unrar in this case - delete extracted files.

[siarzhuk]

Please check with hrev45188. unrar was updated to version 4.2.4 and password handling should be functional now. Note that UnRAR was outsorced to optional package and you have to install UnRAR package before check. Please be sure that old 3.7.8 version is removed from your /boot/system/bin folder.

PS: I have observed some problems with archives protected with non-latin (cyrillic for example) passwords. But such problems are observed with this archives on other OSes too. ;-)

[pulkomandy]

Confirmed working with the above test files.