155524 - can't "save image as.."

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[alex chen]

i can't use "Save Image As.." at
http://211.99.196.232/cgi-bin/forum/viewpost.cgi?which=photo&id=79213 , i guess
the reason is this photo has a chinese character filename,and some mistake
happened  on UTF-8 encoding for "Save Image as..." function.
i using Mozilla on win2000, The build ID is 2002053012, and i try on redhat
linux 7.1 , is same.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> File Handling and confirming with win2k build 20020703..

CC Int people

Comment 2

[Barry McGeorge]

It also happens at <A
HREF="http://www.carvingpumpkins.com/">http://www.carvingpumpkins.com/</A>. 
Using Mozilla 1.2b on Win2k.  The dialog comes up, but the files are not saved
to my hard drive.  They do show up as shortcuts in my recent files list, but no
file is located in the target area of the shortcut.

Comment 3

[Franklin Bynum]

Severity here should be major, I think.

Comment 4

[Chris Petersen]

I can reproduce the original problem as described. Tested under Windows ME using
2002-10-22-08 trunk. I could workaround the issue by doing the following:

1) Changing page's character coding to Western (View - Character Coding - Western)
2) Right click on image and select View Image
3) Right click on image and select Save Image As

Comment 5

[ken hamilton]

I tried Chris Peterson's workaround on Windows NT 4.0 with Mozilla 1.2b binary
release, and it did not work for me.

Comment 6

[Robin Haswell]

I have the same problem. Have tried saving countless images and nothing is
written to the harddrive. Neither can I use "Save link target as".

Both come up with query box.

Mozilla 1.2b
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

The character encoding workaround doesn't work either. Suggest upgrading this
bug major severity? Not being able to save images is a major flaw, heh.

Sorry, I have limited ability to test this bug elsewhere.

Comment 7

[ken hamilton]

Also do see this on Windows 95 OSR2 with the 1.2b binary.

Pretty severe, I think.  Have to open up a different browser to do any kind of
download!

Comment 8

[timeless]

chrome://communicator/content/contentAreaUtils.js> line 354
354: this.linkChecker.asyncCheckURI(aURL, this, null, flags);
afaik this is where we die. i'm busy trying to crash brb.

Comment 9

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

1) Anyone seeing problems with 1.2b is NOT SEEING THIS BUG.  GO READ THE RELEASE
   NOTES.

2) The server does not support HEAD, as a quick test with telnet shows.

Comment 10

[ken hamilton]

Mr. Zbarsky's comment is right on.  Sorry I missed the entry in the release notes.

Here it is for anyone else who happens to come here with 1.2b:

Windows: If you encounter the message "[filename] could not be saved, because
the source file could not be read...", the problem may be that you installed
mozilla 1.2b over an older version. Exit Mozilla, delete the file compreg.dat
from your components directory, and then restart Mozilla. (Bug 171441)

Comment 11

[Franklin Bynum]

So is this bug INVALID? or a dupe?

Comment 12

[Jerome Dahdah]

I'm using 1.4 with windows xp. I'm having the same problem. I usually post the
image url in IExplorer and save the image but that kinda beats the purpose.

Comment 13

[davidkolar]

Jerome (from comment #12), check bug 213698 and see if this matches your
experience. 

Comment 14

[wkfx2003-bugzilla]

I have different message when I load this image
http://hk.yimg.com/hk/providers/singtao/20031211/20031211fp08y.jpg
then try to right-click "Save Image As..."

It said the image is "removed".

Comment 15

[Renata Romanazzi]

I am using Win2k with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6)
Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 and it just does not allow me to "Save Image As" or
"Save Page As". Big problem, I'd say. I tried to disable all extensions (Linky,
Web Developer and ChromEdit) but didn't help. It happens to absolutely ALL images. 

Comment 16

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Firefox forked all the saving code, so please don't complain about it here.

Comment 17

[Joachim Otahal]

With Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421
(release Candidate 1) on Windows 2000, more than just one machine testet, I
still cannot save http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ant.jpg - I get "download error"
and a zero byte file. Please don't release it with that bug included.
Well, back to 1.6 Mozilla I think.

Comment 18

[sulli]

I am having this same problem on Win XP with Mozilla 1.6  I have never seen it
before in previous versions I have used.

Comment 19

[Joachim Otahal]

A variant today:
Using Mozilla 1.6 instead of 1.7 with the same profile, I got 4 times
download-error when saving http://astro.estec.esa.nl/Integral/POMSep2003.gif -
but 1.6 saved the image after clicking 4 times OK.
1.7 failed.

Comment 20

[Kevin]

OS: Windows XP SP1
Browser Ver: 1.7 RC1 [Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b)
Gecko/20040421]

Ever since I've upgraded to RC1 of 1.7 I've been having problems saving images.
When I go to save, it gives me about 3 alert boxes consecutively while loading
the download manager, they appear in different parts of the screen. The messages
all just have the host name of the site I'm downloading from. ex. mozilla.org

I've tried it with .gif and .jpg, it gives me a download fail or just leaves the
progress bar there with no cancel option. It does however write the file fine. I
have tried saving to my local HD and to my portable USB flash drive.

Comment 21

[R.K.Aa.]

to comment 20: that's bug 240367

Comment 22

[Joachim Otahal]

Seems to work with Mozilla 1.8a2 and 1.7rc2 on quite some systems. Can anyone
test and confirm this ? For example with http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ant.jpg -
or are there still such strange spots ?

Comment 23

[Jason Bassford]

No fix specified.

->WORKSFORME

Comment 24

[Baba Ji]

It also happens at  http://www.pumpkincarvingidea.com/ and and few days back it was on this as well http://www.loveshayarii.com/  Using Mozilla 1.2b on Win2k.  The dialog comes up, but the files are not saved to my hard drive.  They do show up as shortcuts in my recent files list, but no
file is located in the target area of the shortcut.