130859 - can't open Microsoft Office docs from browser without saving to disk first

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Mathias Aebischer]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311
BuildID:    2002031104

there's a link to download a word document, when clicked the "open/save dialog"
apears. if open is chosen, download does not start. on second attempt the
following error message is shown: "C:\{path}" could not be opened, because an
unknown error occurred. Sorry about that. Try saving to disk first and then
opening the file. i think, this used to work in mozilla 0.9.8. you can
workaround by choosing word manually over the "choose" button - this will throw
no errors

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to http://www.youngculture.com/index.cfm?wm=s%281%29m%2832%29
2.click on a link to a word doc
3.select "Open using Word"
4.if nothing happens try again

Actual Results:  now you should see the error message:

"C:\{path}" could not be opened, because an unknown error occurred. Sorry about
that. Try saving to disk first and then opening the file.

Expected Results:  the choosen document should be open in word

Comment 1

[Shark Daddy (Jonathan L.)]

Confirmed on Win2K/0.9.9. This is not native to this site, I experienced this
bug earlier elsewhere.

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

is this another issue resulting from bug 55690, or something else?

Comment 3

[Mathias Aebischer]

I don't think this has something to do with bug 55690. There's no problem in
downloading a file, there's only a problem in opening the file directly from
mozilla. But probably the browser really tries to open the file with the
original filename while this was replaced by a "wonderfully non-descriptive"
name. I don't know how to check this.

Comment 4

[Andrew Hagen]

Worksforme testing with pre-1.3 alpha 2002120708, Windows 98.

Reporter, can you download and install a latest-trunk build and test it again?
It should now work.

Comment 5

[Mathias Aebischer]

i've just tested it again with mozilla 1.2.1 - it works!