173390 - Doesn't automatically ungzip or uncompress files

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 52282

(Core :: Networking: File, defect)

Description

[Scott Davis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020827
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020827

If an html file is compressed (*.html.Z) or gzipped (*.html.gz), Netscape 4.76
silently ungzips it and renders the HTML inside, but Mozilla 1.1 prompts to
download and save a file of type "gzip" [application/gzip]. If the html.gz file
is served by a web server (http), it seems to do the right thing, but not for
local file: URLs.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.TYpe a file: URL or click on a link to an html.gz file
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Downloading file dialog appeared

Expected Results:  
Silently ungzipped file and rendered content as html, as is done by Netscape 4.

Comment 1

[Scott Davis]

Oops. I searched for "file gzip" and for keyword 4xp before filing the bug. I
should have tried "file .gz". Sorry. This is a duplicate of Bug 52282 and Bug
171345, apart from the platform I'm running on.

Sorry to have butted in with an extraneous bug report.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 52282 ***

Comment 2

[benc]

That's what duplicates are for... the next time someone searches, they might hit
your summary!