163882 - downloading a PDF file in hotmail causes it to be renamed to abc.pdf.EXE

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[niall]

if you do not have adobe acrobat installed and if someone sends you a PDF file,
for exampl abc.pdf, in hotmail (mozilla) when you click 'download this file' it
says the filename is abc.pdf.EXE

that worrys me, so i did some testing, i installed acrobat, rebooted, back into
hotmail downloaded the SAME file and now its correctly called ABC.PDF

to test some more, i uninstalled acrobat, rebooted and downloaded the SAME file
and now again it is named ABC.PDF.EXE

this could be used maliciously by someone sending a 'way out' file with a
legitamite file extension which becomes 'changed' to EXE by (windows ?) .

I tested the SAME file in IE 6 with and without ACROBAT installed and both times
it was correctly labelled as ABC.PDF

cheers

anyweb

Comment 1

[timeless]

not bugzilla.

Comment 2

[Kevin Chen]

What build are you using?  If it was before July 23, it's probably a dup of bug
120327 (though that wouldn't explain your second download name).

Comment 3

[Kevin Chen]

Reporter is using Mozilla 1.0 (from e-mail).

Try using a newer version, such as 1.1beta (or 1.1 when it is released) or one
of the nightly builds.  This should fix a significant number of filename
problems.  Marking dup of bug 120327, though also see bug 129979 and bug 65827.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 120327 ***

Comment 4

[Kevin Chen]

Oops... sorry for the misinformation.  Mozilla 1.1beta was released before bug
120327 was fixed.  Try again with one of the nightly builds instead.

Comment 5

[niall]

tried 1.1 beta, didnt resolve as per the email i sent to Kevin ([e-mail]) 

it included screenshots so i'm opening this again

this bug is not fixed guys, and i have to point out again im using windows XP
professional if that makes a sod of difference.

IE=no prob
MOZ=prob

cheers

niall/anyweb

Comment 6

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Reporter, Is this still actual for you with 1.2a?

Comment 7

[Michael Newton]

This bug is still showing up, although I'm using Phoenix

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20030120 Phoenix/0.5

I would guess it's a problem with the MIME type that the server is putting out.
 If you go to http://www.usr-emea.com/support/s-v92-upgrade.asp and ask to
download the "563002.inf Windows INF file for xx5630-01" from the HTTP server,
it will automatically append a ".EXE" to the file name, even though the link
itself points to a ".INF" file.

Comment 8

[Ivar Abrahamsen]

Mozilla appends .exe when I try to download rpms via FTP. Generally I think any
files via FTP ? Even when I rename them in the file name popup it still appends
.exe to the file.
I am using 20030221 build on windows xp.

Does this happen to anyone else ?

Comment 9

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

this is caused by an entry in edit/preferences/helper applications for the
application/octet-stream type...

current mozilla builds no longer create such an entry, marking FIXED

if you have such an entry and see this bug, delete it.