155247 - Incorrect handling of MSI files

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 120327

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Jeremy Brown]

In Windows, .MSI files are Microsoft Installer files.  They are not executables,
but are instead handled by the Microsoft Installer program.  When I download a
MSI file in Mozilla 1.0 though, Mozilla tacks an "exe" extension to the file,
thus saving it as "xxxxxxx.msi.exe".  Since Windows doesn't really show file
extensions any more (it abstracts them as file types) it took me a bit of
fooling around to figure out that this wasn't a problem with my install of
Microsoft Installer and instead was a Mozilla issue.

It's not a huge deal.  The file still downloaded correctly.  But to change the
file back to an .msi file that Microsoft Installer could handle, I had to open
up a command prompt window and use "move", which shouldn't be necessary.

Maybe this has to do with .msi files being considered executables by either
Mozilla or the operating system?

I first ran into the problem when trying to download ActivePerl from
http://www.activestate.com and later when trying to download Apache for Win32
from http://httpd.apache.org.

Comment 1

[Jeremy Brown]

Correction...I seem to be getting this with other mime types too, zip files for
example.

Comment 2

[Sven Krohlas]

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

Comment 3

[timeless]

vrfy dupe