166273 - The file is saved with the wrong extension by default, an extra "tar" suffix is added

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 164816

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Adam Boseley]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-0.92-i386-pc.tar.gz is saved by mozilla as

grub-0.92-i386-pc.tar.gz.tar instead of simply
grub-0.92-i386-pc.tar.gz

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Connect to http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-0.92-i386-pc.tar.gz
2. Select save this file to disk
3. Have a close look at the file name assigned my Mozilla

Actual Results:  
Programs don't recognise the file.  

Expected Results:  
Mozilla shouldn't add the extra "tar" suffix.  

Although this is a fairly minor problem my initial impression was that Mozilla
was corrupting the download. Windows was hiding the extra "tar" extension since
it recognised the tar type as an archive.  Since I didn't see the extra tar
extensions, this simple name problem inhibited me from downloading and using the
file.

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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