159850 - Problem downloading/saving files (Mozilla Build 2002053012)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 144334

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Matt Krause]

Downloaded files for example "zasetup352.exe" (Zone Alarm) do not appear as a
program, but maintain the ".exe" extension and and are listes as "bin" files.
These downloads will therefore not execute!
The same file downloads acceptably with Netscape 4.79.

Comment 1

[Wesha]

Reporter: could you please read the Bug Writing Guidelines at 

http://www.mozilla.org/quality/bug-writing-guidelines.html

to see the kinds of information we need in a bug report. Please report
back with more information after reading those guidelines and consider
using the Bugzilla Helper to report future bugs. 

In your case, we need the URL where you downloaded the said file
("zasetup352.exe") and the sequence of your actions (i.e. went to page
http://a.b.com, clicked "download", clicked "save", etc.)

The Helper can be found at 

http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/bug-form.html

Thanks for your help in testing Mozilla.

Comment 2

[Kevin Chen]

Sounds like a duplicate of bug 120327

Comment 3

[Frederic Bezies]

Yes ! Another duplicate of 120327. Something like 101th or so.

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

Comment 4

[Matt Krause]

URL added.

Problem seems to be that the download manager insists on saving the file as
"zasetup3125.exe.bin" while Netscape correctly saves it as "zasetup3125.exe"

Comment 5

[Wesha]

Reporter: This bug has been already reported and currently Mozilla team is
working on it. As a quick workaround, you can manually erase the extra extension
(".bin" in your case) off the file name using Windows Explorer. If you need
further help with the issue, please feel free to email me personally.

Thank you for prompt response!

==> Verified duplicate

Comment 6

[Matt Krause]

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 120327 which is classified as closed!
This bug is not fixed as of Mozilla 1.21 for Windows or Moxilla 1.20 for
Macintosh OS9.

Download manager continues to append a ".bin" to the names of files being
downloaded. Thus "mozilla-win32-1.2.1-installer.exe" becomes
"mozilla-win32-1.2.1-installer.exe.bin".
Although this is easily corrected before the file is saved to disk, or by
renaming the file it is not how the system should work.

The problem only occurs when the file is downloaded from
"http://ftp.mozilla.org/..." which is the path from the Mozilla home page.
Download manager states that "you have elected to download a file type: "binary
executable" [application/octet-stream} from
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/..."

If one goes directly to the ftp location "ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/..." then the
downloaded file is correctly named. 

Comment 7

[Wesha]

Oh well, I only meant that THIS kind of bug has been reported numerous times
anyway. If it will make you feel better, have another dup, which is not FIXED yet.

Hint: bug 120327 deals with problem "as a whole", and bug 144334 with some
specific issues of it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 144334 ***

Comment 8

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

v dup