Closed
Bug 139054
Opened 22 years ago
Closed 22 years ago
Certain extensions don't download but are displayed (.gz)
Categories
(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
DUPLICATE
of bug 124787
People
(Reporter: billc, Assigned: law)
Details
You can see this behavior when trying to download the latest mozilla Mach-O build. Trying to Save Link Target As, doesn't work. One can argue that the webserver isn't doing the right thing with mime-types, but the problem if very far reaching. Because Mozilla will read a mime-type gzip, shouldn't preclude it to displaying a filetype of .gz Other issues exist with file extentions like .dmg, where it will again display it, mostly because the large number of servers out there do not have .dmg in the mime-file. For example, there are two different behaviors: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-macho-macosx-trunk.dmg.gz and http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-macho-macosx-trunk.dmg.gz Understandably, two different protocols, but from a user standpoint, there shouldn't be any difference in how mozilla responds to this. In both cases a file save should pop up (imho).
Correction to above: "shouldn't preclude it to -downloading- a filetype of .gz" also: Save Link Target As.. does work, it was Finder that wasn't updating the desktop after it had completed.
Comment 2•22 years ago
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The http case sends us a "content-type: text/plain" header as well as "content-encoding: gzip" header. Since we handle content decoding, we decode it and show the content. This is the correct behavior. The server is quite simply misconfigured. Mozilla should under no circumstances be overriding the server-provided type for http requests. No browser except IE does so, by the way. Individual servers that are broken should have evangelism bugs filed on them. Marking duplicate of ".gz files on http://ftp.mozilla.org/ have MIME type text/plain" *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 124787 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Updated•8 years ago
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Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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