Closed Bug 819402 Opened 12 years ago Closed 12 years ago

Certain filetypes cannot be set to Action: Save File

Categories

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

20 Branch
x86_64
Windows 7
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: aeidein, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20121205 Firefox/20.0
Build ID: 20121205030759

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to http://www.filehippo.com/download_firefox/ 
2. Click Download Latest Version
3. Wait


Actual results:

Pop-up dialog asking, "Would you like to save this file?" and "Save file/Cancel":
http://i.imgur.com/G2txI.png


Expected results:

Pop-up dialog asking, "Would you like to save this file?" and "Save file/Cancel" with checkbox for "Do this automatically for files like this from now on."
http://i.imgur.com/cGCHK.png

Subsequent links to exe files should not trigger a dialog, but download automatically.
>Subsequent links to exe files should not trigger a dialog
File extensions are meaningless for http connections and the whole database in Firefox is therefore based on the content-type.

The response from the server in this case:
>HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>Content-Type: application/octet-stream
>Last-Modified: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 06:06:08 GMT
>Accept-Ranges: bytes
>ETag: "a23bc7c877d3cd1:0"
>Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
>Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 00:03:55 GMT
>Content-Length: 20888056
>Expires: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 08:26:54 GMT
>Connection: keep-alive
>Length: 20888056 (20M) [application/octet-stream]

Content-Type: application/octet-stream is a general content-type for binary data.
It makes no sense to store decisions based on this general content-type and Firefox is refusing to store decisions for this content-type.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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