163424 - .xml postfixed to file names being downloaded - profile related

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 120327

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Jerome Lacoste]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020811
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020811

When  I try to download the JDK 1.4.1beta from Sun's web site, Mozilla adds a
'.xml' extension to the file name.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the above mentioned URL (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html)
2. Click to download the SDK for Windows (all languages)
3. Click accept on the term and conditions. You are then presented a page that
allows you to initiate the download of the JRE.
4. click on the link (do not do Save As as this does NOT reproduces the problem)
 The link looks like: http://dlres.java.sun.com/JSCDL/download/<big
number>/<other big number>/j2sdk-1_4_1-beta-windows-i586.exe

Actual Results:  
File manager opens and offers you to save file as
j2sdk-1_4_1-beta-windows-i586.exe.xml

Expected Results:  
File manager opens and offers you to save file as j2sdk-1_4_1-beta-windows-i586.exe

I tried to find a dupe usign 'xml download', but couldn't.

Comment 1

[Jerome Lacoste]

Corrected title.
I forgot to add that this seems to be a regression.

Comment 2

[Frederic Bezies]

Sorry to say, it works for me !

Using Trunk build 2002081804 - WinXP.

Reporter, it seems that there is younger "release candidate" for 1.1 (dated 18
august).

Can you download it and try to see if the bug is still present ?

Thanks.

Comment 3

[Jerome Lacoste]

I would really like to download it, but we are on a modem line and it takes
quite a long time for me to do so. 
I will give it a try.

Comment 4

[Jerome Lacoste]

Downloaded latest as pointed on mozillazine.org
(http://komodo.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest-1.1/)

Problem still present...

Mozilla 1.1
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020818

Note: I downloaded the talkback enabled build (mozilla-win32-talkback.zip).

Comment 5

[Jerome Lacoste]

I've tested opening a new profile: the bug doesn't appear.
So the bug is profile related.
If there's anything I can do to help, just tell me which part of the profile I
may be involved.

Comment 6

[Frederic Bezies]

Well, I don't know which part of the profile should be guilty for this bug.

Make a backup copy of your guilty profile, and try removing mimetypes.rdf ?

It is a possibility :-) But I am not sure this is the right one !

I am not a professionnal in profile handling, but it may be simpler to recreate
all your accounts, quit mozilla, and copy your bookmarks (bookmarks.html) and
you mail data to your new account.

And after, using profile manager, removing the old buggy one.

Well, ask for some more help.

I hope I helped you a little :-)

Comment 7

[Wesha]

WFM 2002081808/winXP

Here's what I get:

--------------------------------------------------------------------
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Server: Netscape-Enterprise/4.1
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:10:56 GMT
Content-type: text/plain
Location:
http://sunsdlc1-1.sjc-colo.bbnplanet.com/servlet/EComFileServlet//ESD2/JSCDL/downloads/j2sdk/1.4.1/978Beta098sdfnv/j2sdk-1_4_1-beta-windows-i586.exe?ActionId=verify&TicketId=DlxZ%2FkuCV1E%3D&TicketServerUrl=zXfAgJjyQd1SQ13APdzMgsQtx4XM8w3WUx5y4FDy4Q%3D%3D
Content-length: 0
Connection: close
--------------------------------------------------------------------

The other URL doesn't support HEAD, but properly executes GET.

Comment 8

[Jerome Lacoste]

Attachment: my mimeTypes.rdf

Seems like my mimeTypes.rtdf contains a strange entry for
application/octect-stream.

  <RDF:Description about="urn:mimetype:application/octet-stream"
		   NC:value="application/octet-stream"
		   NC:description="Extensible Markup Language"
		   NC:fileExtensions="xml"
		   NC:editable="true">
    <NC:handlerProp resource="urn:mimetype:handler:application/octet-stream"/>
  </RDF:Description>

Is there a way to look at a log file and see what went wrong?

Comment 9

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

What went wrong when?  Given that entry, this is yet another incarnation of bug
120327....

Comment 10

[Frederic Bezies]

Well, looks like it.

I hesitate a little, but I will follow your comment.

Marking this one as dup of 120327 !

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