1185226 - "Save video as" failed to retrieve webm from imgur, giving me gifv instead.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[untukforum]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0
Build ID: 20150630154324

Steps to reproduce:

Here's the sample link. 
http://i.imgur.com/6dGFjgJ.gifv  
If i opened that gif, then right click->save video as; Sometimes it give me the webm, but more often it give me gifv.
If i download the gifv, they unusable, because the gifv filesize is only 5 kb or so. 


Actual results:

Inconsistency "save video as" behaviour, sometimes it give the correct webm, but more often it give me gifv.  
The gifv is unusable, since it's not the real file.  


Expected results:

It should give me webm.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

could be related to bug 570755 or bug 874867

Comment 2

[Ralph Giles (:rillian)]

This might be an imgur evangelism issue, or possibly an issue with how we're sending our request. Passing to front-end folks for further triage.

FWIW, I do get webm from the example link.

Comment 3

[Stu Gese]

I do get gifv every single time no matter what I do. Firefox 46 Dev, Win8 64-bit.

Example link: https://i.imgur.com/lDwSHXi.webm

This link will redirect to .gifv, .gifv is actually a HTML page with <video> & 2 <source> tags (webm, mp4)

When you right click "Save Video As", you get .gifv (html) file instead.

Comment 4

[Alice0775 White]

I can also reproduce the .gifv on Google Chrome Dev 50.0.2652.0 as well as Firefox.

Comment 5

[fireattack [:fireattack]]

(In reply to Alice0775 White from comment #4)
> I can also reproduce the .gifv on Google Chrome Dev 50.0.2652.0 as well as
> Firefox.

By reproducing you mean reproduce the bug? Because here if I save as on Chrome (50.0.2657.3) it ALWAYS provide webm but on Firefox it SOMETIMES give a gifv (which is actually an HTML file) just like user story.

Comment 6

[Alice0775 White]

(In reply to Benjamin Peng from comment #5)
> (In reply to Alice0775 White from comment #4)
> > I can also reproduce the .gifv on Google Chrome Dev 50.0.2652.0 as well as
> > Firefox.
> 
> By reproducing you mean reproduce the bug? 

yes

Comment 7

[Joris van der Wel [:JoWie]]

I can reproduce this bug consistently on Firefox 54.0.1 on macOS Sierra with a clean profile. I almost always end up with the html page, instead of the video, on imgur. For example on this page: http://i.imgur.com/p6QTfbP.gifv