177668 - Mozilla/1.2b can not open URLs that require spawning an external viewer

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 171441

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[manojd]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

Was working correctly till Mozilla/1.2a; stopped when I moved to 1.2b. Same URL
works correctly with IE.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. I have a local URL on the intranet - something like "http://machine/try.xls".
Someone sent me this URL in a mail. I open the mail in Outlook, click on the
link. Mozilla is default HTTP handler - starts downloading the file - then gives
the message:
a) Message window title: "Downloading C:\MANOJD\TMPDIR\oudb8m40.xls"
b) Message contents: "C:\MANOJD\TMPDIR\oudb8m40.xls could not be saved, because
the source file could not be read.
Try again later, or contact the server administrator."

2.  Note that the URL is fine - only Mozilla is not able to retrieve it or so it
reports. IE can pick up the same URL successfully.

3.  Same problem when picking up zip files via HTTP too. But not with files
Mozilla can natively load - like HTMLs.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

delete the file "compreg.dat" while mozilla is not running or reinstall in a CLEAN 
directory and please always search before you file a bug (count the dupes of bug
171441)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 171441 ***

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 177671 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Jason Bassford]

Recursive duping.  Reopening to (again) dupe to bug 171441.

Comment 4

[Jason Bassford]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 171441 ***

Comment 5

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

V.

Comment 6

[manojd]

Fixed for me - after applying the hack suggested by comment#1. Thanks Matti.