202811 - Save Link Target as results in "The Link Could Not be Saved...."

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Richard Weingartner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

When in the files section of any Yahoo! group and trying to use the Save Link
Target As or shift-clicking the file to save it to the hard drive, the "The link
could not be saved.  The web page might have been removed or had its named
changed."  This only started today on Yahoo! groups,  I tried it someplace else
and the shift-click/save link target as worked.  So I think it's an
imcompatability between something Yahoo! changed and mozilla.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to any Yahoo group file secion.
2. Right click and choose save file as or shift-click on filename.

Actual Results:  
I receive the error message: "The link could not be saved.  The web page might
have been removed or had its named changed." 

Expected Results:  
Opened the Save As dialog box.

Comment 1

[Jesiah S]

Save As:
Yahoo responds to the HEAD request with a 403 Forbidden Error
Click file:
Yahoo responds to the GET request with 200 OK  and the content.

Bug 160454 is the tracking bug for HEAD request used in Save as.

Comment 2

[benc]

-> file handling

Comment 3

[smack92604]

This same problem came up for me in Yahoo Briefcase.  I'd encountered it quite a
while ago (in 1.2.1, I have 1.3 now), then had it disappear.  Now it's back.  I
say that the reproducibility is intermittent.

The workaround for this is using IE.

Comment 4

[Keith Smith]

This bug is now reproducible at http://www.mozilla.org/ in 1.4 (Build 20030624)

Comment 5

[james davis]

The first time I hit the nightly ftp tree (shift + right button) I get this error
too. The download starts on the second (+) try. I haven't traced the session
(yet). Repeatable by changing dirs and the only the first ftp try fails.
I'm win2k - anyone else try the trunk linux release yet?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/2003071108

Comment 6

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

I can confirm this with a recent 1.7 trunk build on winxp.

Comment 7

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

*** Bug 233376 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** Bug 211468 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Jimmy Sanders]

Same on Amazon.com, do a search for any thing and then try and save it, perhaps
its with dynamic pages?

Comment 10

[Dave]

Seems like this may be a dupe of Bug 160448; although that bug doesn't mention
it anywhere, I gather that the reporter is talking about right clicking and
choosing "Save Link As..." also since he contrasts his experience with
left-clicking and having no problem.  Also, both discuss issues with HEAD method
and save-as, and both depend on Bug 160454.

Comment 11

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 252208 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

I've tested "Save Link Target As ..." with some file in:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/files/

I see the bug with a Seamonkey build of 2004-10-07, but I don't see the bug
anymore with a Seamonkey build of 2004-10-10.
It seems to be fixed by the fix for bug 160454. Marking FIXED.