1474625 - PDF download does not save file extension

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect, P3)

Description

[zoja]

Attachment: firefox61-pdf-extension-issue.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.87 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

- Downloading .pdf file
- Example: https://www.rdm.com/R-M-Products/Fiber-Optics/Netscale-Solutions/Netscale-Housings/Housing-1U/Netscale-Housing-1U
- Hit 'Download PDF' button


Actual results:

In Firefox the file extension is removed (.pdf) when the file is downloaded, so instead of '11189.pdf' I get file named '11189'. Consequently the file cannot be opened. 


Expected results:

As it works in Chrome, Safari, IE - the extension should be appended to the file name. File extension is recognised correctly (see attachment, Network > Document type is pdf). 

Possible to reproduce on desktop, as well as on Android Firefox Beta v62.0

Comment 1

[Daniel_A[:daschilean] [Please contact - [e-mail]]]

User Agent:   Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:63.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/63.0 
Build ID: 20180712220034            
I manage to reproduce this issue on Mac 10.13 with Firefox Nightly 63.0a1 (2018-07-12) (64-bit).

Comment 2

[:Paolo Amadini]

It may be a server issue, but we should probably take a look if this is something that works in other browsers. At the moment, however, we don't have a team working on this component.

Comment 3

[zoja]

Thanks for the feedback. On this particular web site where we spotted a bug, we did a workaround (updated the code to manually force file extension in browser). So you won't be able to replicate the bug with a link I referenced, but the issue is still there.