88619 - Installed has .tar.gz extensions, but it is not gzipped

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 35956

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Don Allen]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010628
BuildID:    2001062823

The installer tar file has a .gz extension but is not gzipped. It is an
uncompressed tar file.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. These field should be optional!!! Not all apply to every bug!
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Comment 1

[David Einstein]

Not to too vehemently disagree with your statements about the steps to
reproduce, but precisely which installer are you downloading, there is an new
one made every day? Where are you downloading it from? and probably most
important, what are you downloading it with? 
The reason that this is important is that different browsers handle downloading
in different ways, and sometimes the same browser treats the same data in
different ways depending on what it is doing.  The problem that you are seeing
is that the webserver at mozilla .org is telling your browser that the file has
a Content-Type of application/x-tar a Content-Encoding of x-gzip (or maybe gzip
there's not much difference) and a filename of foo.tar.gz.  Now when a browser
is saving a file to disk it has two choices, it can save the file with or
without the content encoding.  There are good arguments for each:  Saving with
the content encoding is the obvious thing to do when downloading foo.tar.gz, but
if you had a mime type of text/html that became mysteriously gzipped when saving
you might not be so sure.
Mozilla right now does the first, something that pleases people who download
lots of tar.gz files, and anoy people who attempt to save HTML.  Bugs files by
the former are marked fixed, and the latter file new ones.  Come the revolution,
things will be different.

Comment 2

[Jens-Uwe]

don:
this bug is already fixed. you just encountered it, because your old Mozilla
unzipped the file on the fly. if you use 0.9.2 for downloading the same file, it
should work fine!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 35956 ***

Comment 3

[Grace Bush]

verify