156020 - mitzpettel.com - Opens .gz files instead of downloading them

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Spider]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020607
BuildID:    2002060704

selecting to download the file (mid page somewhere "Download (596KB compressed
disk image, including Read me file") will make Mozilla open the .gz file as a
document of some sort instead of downloading it, this will cause mozilla to
hard-lock because it doesn't display it properly.

My mime types are unset for application/x-gzip so that shouldn't be the issue.
Ive also tried it by setting a gzip mime type to "always download" and that
doesn't work either.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open page in URL
2.click "download" link
3.watch mozilla freeze (will revive after long time)

Actual Results:  seemed to be a dead-lock in all open mozilla windows, the .gz
file opened in the browser window

Expected Results:  a download dialog

no additional information

Comment 1

[cynicalbug]

This also happens from another site:
http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/downloads.html, and clicking on the
download link for MacJanitor, also causes the file to open as text document in
new window. 

Happening on Mac Mozilla 1.1a, in both OS X 10.1.5 and OS 9.2.2

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

server is delivering this with "unknown" file type.

dupe of "Binary file with unknown type displayed as text/plain rather than saved"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 126782 ***

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

this is no dupe.

the server sends text/plain.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> TE

bug 126782 is about server who sends no content type. 

Comment 5

[Frankie]

I downloaded the file successfully in Moz 20030312.

fuy% curl -I http://www.mitzpettel.com/download/IcyJuice0.9d5.dmg.gz
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:26:23 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.27 OpenSSL/0.9.6g (Unix) PHP/4.3.0 DAV/1.0.3
Last-Modified: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 09:11:52 GMT
ETag: "6b472e-b0dc9-3d884358"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 724425
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Encoding: x-gzip

p.s. tds.net (MacJanitor) is bug 189561.