140519 - File type defaults to *.exe

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 120327

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Gili Tzabari]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020424
BuildID:    2002042409

Whenever I download a zip file, the download manager keeps on defaulting to
"file type=*.exe" and appends a .exe postfix to the filename. This is highly
annoying and is a regression.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download a zip file
2.
3.

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

Can you give an URL where this happens?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I suspect this happens for zip files served as application/octet-stream, because
application/octet-stream is not mapped to .zip by default....

Gili, _does_ this happen for all zip files?

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

As a note, if this only happens for some files that would be bug 120327

Comment 4

[Gili Tzabari]

Let me clarify what I mean even further:

If I download foo.abc.whatever, I don't want Mozilla to change the filename,
ever. I don't care if I'm download a zip, mp3, txt file or what, why should it
modify the filename?

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Becase for the typical user (which you obviously are not) a file with the wrong
extension becomes unopenable, no?  Double-clicking on it launches the wrong app...

Marking dup of the bug which will fix this behavior.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 120327 ***

Comment 6

[Jonas Jørgensen]

How could this possibly be fixed by bug 120327 when that bug only deals with
text/plain?

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Because text/plain and application/octet-stream need to be treated the same way
for the same reasons (because servers use them as dumping grounds for stuff).

If _I_ fix bug 120327 (which I hope to do in late June) it will fix this bug. 
If someone else fixes it, it may not and then this bug should be reopened.  The
chances of this happening are pretty much nil -- I see a lot of complaining and
very little effort to actually _do_ something in that bug.

Comment 8

[Arnoud Berendsen]

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