165810 - spurious extension added when downloading files

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 164816

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[pitrou]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

When downloading some files, often a spurious extension is added to the filename
provided by the Web server. Most often these are :

- .tar.gz files : a .tar is added (.tar.gz.tar)
- files downloaded via a PHP script : a .php is added to the real filename (e.g.
.gif.php)

I think that, when the filename already has an extension, the browser shouldn't
attempt to add its own. The Web server is supposed to provide the correct filename.

This bug happens really often, so even if it's a misconfiguration problem on the
server side (which I doubt, as other clients handle it properly), it's quite
annoying.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 164816 ***

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verification of Duplicates.

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