296828 - Download of file with UNIX line termination results in file with DOS line termination

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Markus Fix]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050601 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050601 Firefox/1.0.4

Using Firefox to download a file (see example URL) via ftp changes the line
termination from UNIX to DOS. Trying to run such a shell script will result in
obscure error messages due to the DOS line termination. The broken file can be
fixed by using the following one liner "recode MSDOS..Latin-1
lwlper-license.sh". Fetching the example file using wget results in a correct
download.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Fetch the example URL
2. Try to run the script with "sh lwlper-license.sh"


Actual Results:  
The SH command cannot execute a file with DOS line termination under Linux.

Expected Results:  
Preserved the UNIX line termination.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.