Closed Bug 167589 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

downloading *.dmg.gz causes display rather than download and save behaviour

Categories

(Camino Graveyard :: Downloading, defect)

PowerPC
macOS
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 150101

People

(Reporter: james, Assigned: mikepinkerton)

References

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Details

Normally downloading works very smoothly but at least for files ending in "dmg.gz" the raw data is displayed rather than the file being downloaded and saved. A workaround is to uses right click and save target as which words fine. The URL above shows a download page for Proteus which has this behaviour (click the word "here") or just put http://idisk.mac.com/jwood/Public/Proteus.dmg.gz in the address bar. This usually happens when downloading from an iDisk so that is another possible source of the problem. Had this happening in 0.4.0 and in the latest 0.5.0 build. 2002090905
http://idisk.mac.com/jwood/Public/Proteus.dmg.gz is sent with the following headers: HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 22:30:59 GMT Content-Length: 4660527 Content-Type: text/plain Server: Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) DAV/1.0.2 Content-Encoding: x-gzip So the server is telling us it's text. We show it as text....
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 150101 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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