1079981 - Firefox tries to display a download instead of downloading and shows gibberish (ÐÏ à¡± á���������������)

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[alex_mayorga]

Prerequisites:
- Create a free "My Oracle Support" account over at https://profile.oracle.com/myprofile/account/create-account.jspx

Steps:
- Load http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/amc-download-2255283.html
- Click the "Accept License Agreement" radio button
- Click "JavaAMC-1_0-windows-i586.msi"
- Log in with the account created on the prerequisites

Result:
Firefox tries to display the download instead of downloading and shows gibberish (ÐÏࡱá���������������)

Expected result:
"JavaAMC-1_0-windows-i586.msi" is downloaded

Works on Chromium.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

can you post the http headers for the file ?
this is very likely just a server bug because it send the file as text/plain

Comment 2

[alex_mayorga]

¡Hola Matthias!

How do I "post the http headers for the file"?

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

(In reply to alex_mayorga from comment #0)
> Works on Chromium.

IIRC Chromium doesn't trust the server, instead it tries to sniff the file type, and that might explain why it works there.
Comment 1 is very likely.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Here is an example URL that I created 10 years ago for bug triage.
This URL should show gibberisch and every browser that presents a download dialog is broken !
- http://mversen.de/mozilla/text/mozilla.rar

>How do I "post the http headers for the file"?
For public URLs you can use as example http://web-sniffer.net to see the http response header.
For my example URL above you should see this in the output: "Content-Type:	text/html"

Your download is not public due to a required login.
You can use a Network sniffer like Wireshark create a Mozilla http log or use the integrated Developer tools /Network tab). The last option seems to be the easiest one.
Do not forget to clear the browser cache before trying to generate useful outout.

Comment 5

[arni2033]

This issue is causing hang and overusing RAM in bug 1210236 filed by me.