170239 - Download of an exe file through a PHP script (most likely a Location: redirect) causes file to download with wrong extention

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 146781

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

Downloading the file creates a .php on the users computer rather than a .exe as
it should.  I believe this a either a mimetype error resulting from the browser
using the mime type based on the extention ".php" of the requested URL and not
noticing the Location: redirect that the php script gives.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Visit
http://www.stumbler.net/download.php?site=1&filename=NetStumblerInstaller_0_3_30.exe
2.  Check the file downoaded
Actual Results:  
Download is a .php file rather than .exe

Comment 1

[Igor Skoba]

Confirmed on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a)
Gecko/20021115,
in my case at
http://www.fileconnect.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2869
http://www.fileconnect.net/download.php?ok=ok&language=english&filepath=Utils%2Fkazaa%2Fklite202e.exe

Comment 2

[Max Alekseyev]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 146781 ***

Comment 3

[Tony Tovar]

This is actually a dupe of bug 65827 since the ".php" filename-extension is
being appended rather than substituted.