150313 - mozilla insists on saving class files with .exe after them

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 120327

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Craig Turner]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
BuildID:    mozilla 1.0

There's an onoging joke in the house atm that everything I touch computerwise
breaks. My linux install has the problems I was mentioning the other day and I
can't seem to fix it, so I've withdrawn to Windows, which is allready on the
sick list, giving me "Program too big to fit into memory" problems when I try to
run some programs thta previously worked fine (eg: dungeon siege).

I've been trying to get jython on my system for a couple of hours now so I can
test some java stuff I'm writing as I write it (jython is really good for that,
I find). And I'm having all sotrs of trouble. I downloaded it from their
website, and saved it to my local hard disk as jython-blah.class.exe. That was
the name I was told to save it as in mozilla. I thought - that's a bit wierd -
must be a self-extracting archive. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I've had a
huge run around trying to get it installed.

And the long story is a bit like this:
 . initial download
 . screwed around for ages trying to get it to work - downloaded some DOS tools
to analyse the EXE and tell me about it
 . downloaded it under ie on Jason's machine - hmm - downloads as just
jython-blah.class (no .exe).
 . emalied it form his machine to myself
 . hmm. mozilla-mail wants to save it as jython-blah.class.exe
 . tell mozilla to save it as just jython-blah.class
 . mozilla just goes ahead and saves it with the .exe extension
 . manually remove the .exe and run java jython-blah
 . it works fine

*sigh*


--
Craig Turner - [e-mail]
http://www.ahdore.com/craig


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to the jython download page
2.try to download jython
3.note that it doesn't
4.now download it some other way (wget or under a different browser)
5.email to yourself using a different mail tool
6.open the mali under mozila and try to save the file and tear hair out in
frustration

Comment 1

[Andrew Hagen]

Dupe.

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

Comment 2

[timeless]

vrfy dupe