131929 - Dragging files from ftp-site to the explorer does not download the file, only creates a link

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Björn Andersson]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311
BuildID:    2002031104

Dragging a file from Internet Explorer to the file explorer downloads the file
and places the actual file in the directory dragged to.

From Mozilla, only a web-link is placed in the directory dragged to.

This behaviour in Internet Explorer is very useful, and is currently one of the
last reasons I have not switched over from IE entierly.




Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Connect to an ftp-site
2. Drag a file from an ftp-dir to a directory in the File explorer


Actual Results:  A web link is created in the directory dragged to.

Expected Results:  Download the file, and place it in the directory.

Not sure if this only works in IE due to the integration between the apps, but
if it is possible to mimic the same behaviour from Mozilla it would be very useful.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

setting status to New

Comment 2

[Terri Preston]

nominating for Buffy

Comment 3

[Terri Preston]

qa contact -> pmac

Comment 4

[Paul Wyskoczka]

nsbeta1- per the nav triage team.

Comment 5

[Cyrus Patel]

I've figured out a temporary workaround as follows:

Step 1) Turn off Moz's handling of FTP (Prefs->Advanced->System)
Step 2) Edit the registry entry for HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT such that
        a) shell:open:command => explorer.exe "%1"
        b) delete (or rename) the shell:open:ddeexec key.

This way, the ftp sites I use frequently are handled by explorer (I have 
these as explorer 'favourites') and the rest by moz.

Comment 6

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority and severity.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong, please write a comment and ni :jstutte.

Comment 7

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Firefox no longer supports connecting to FTP servers, so closing this out.