Closed Bug 83429 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

nsIWebBrowserPersist - saving a .txt file will save in html

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Navigation
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: alan, Assigned: adamlock)

Details

This bug cropped up in galeon.  Full text from the original bug at 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55459 below:

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Basically what happens is that galeon will save a .txt file with html/pre
wrappers, even if it is not an html file with that code in it.  It looks
like it's using the internal renderer structure and dumping it to file,
instead of using the original (??).

To reproduce:
Go to the URL http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/hello.asm.txt
File->save as
Edit the file and notice the top line containing <html><head>, etc.
Repeat with the latest mozilla nightly and notice that it saves text properly.

Definately mozilla has the desired results, as people such as myself are
downloading non-html files off the net and having those files contents
change is a bad thing.

Netscape 4.x deals with this by having a "save as type" dropdown that has
the following choices for this file: source/text/postscript, and translates
the source to whatever format the user chooses on the way to the disk.

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Marco said it was a mozilla bug and that "we are using nsIWebBrowserPersist"
which mozilla version are you using (ie which one galeon embedds)? Not seeing
this on windows, will try linux later.
I'm using the patched .9 debs available at
ftp://ufies.org/pub/galeon/people/christophe
embedding?
Assignee: asa → adamlock
Component: Browser-General → Embedding: Docshell
QA Contact: doronr → adamlock
What method are you using to save the document with? If saveDocument then try 
saveURI.
This looks like it was a problem in galeon, we now use SaveURI and it works as
expected, marking invalid.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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