161404 - bugzilla helps mozilla help winzip8 shoot itself in the foot

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 63601

(Bugzilla :: Attachments & Requests, defect)

Description

[timeless]

i'm filing this bug against both mozilla and bugzilla, and i might file a bug
against winzip8.
mozilla 2002080508
steps:
click attachment 93374 [details]
have no helper app for application/octet-stream
mozilla prompts what do you want to do?
browse to winzip8 (winzip32.exe)
select open
if you don't have your license to winzip in the registry you might have to
accept the shareware nag (yet another thing i haven't reinstalled since my
disaster).
in winzip you will see one file "attachment.cgi"
right click it and select open with
you'll be prompted "path\to\attachment.cgi" already exists, do you want to
overwrite it ...?
click yes
you'll get an error (winzip can't open output file)
ok.

well that's nice.

what happened?
bugzilla fed mozilla a file 'attachment.cgi' which was a .tar.gz
mozilla stuck it as attachment.cgi in the temp directory
winzip tried to write attachment.cgi (.tar) into the temp directory
-- this failed because winzip had locked the file (.tar.gz) for reading.

who's fault is it?
bugzilla didn't provide a useful filename (it didn't provide one at all)
mozilla dropped the file in the same temp folder as winzip intended to use

i think winzip actually has a way to change the temp folder, but i haven't quite
figured out which setting to change.

Comment 1

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

> bugzilla didn't provide a useful filename (it didn't provide one at all)



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 63601 ***