143473 - Extension ".exe" added to filename of MIME type "application/octet-stream" is wrong!

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 120327

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Detlef Grittner]

Go to the webpage with the above mentioned URL.
You need the shockwave-plugin if you want to see the page displayed properly.
Choose one of the links "56k/28.8k Mono Stream" or "DSL/Cable Stereo Stream".
The link points to a "snakenet.pls" and could be opened with xmms if xmms was
called with "snakenet.pls" as filename.

But the 1.0 branch build of Mozilla I use adds the extension ".exe" to the
filename. xmms does not know ".pls.exe" and can't open the stream.

No extension should be added to the filename. On my Linux system ".exe" doesn't
make sense even for applications.

With Mozilla 1.0 RC1 this problem doesn't occur.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yes, this is a problem.... :)

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

Comment 2

[Arnoud Berendsen]

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