183659 - adds .php extension to patch files

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 65827

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Nehal M]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126

when downloading a patch file, it adds the .php extension to it, and i cant
override it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the url:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=619539&group_id=9863&atid=309863
2. near the bottom of the page on the right side, you will see a download link,
click it
3. select save file to disk, select 'all files' for file type and try to save
the file with a .patch extension

Actual Results:  
it appended .php to the saved file

Expected Results:  
saved to the desired filename

i think it may do it because the download link is not direct, but is actually a
.php redirection

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This has been filed many many times...

Comment 2

[Jim Race]

I'm pretty sure it's bad PHP coding. In the past couple of jobs I had (QA'ing
PHP sites) we'd fix this for Moz, it'd get broken again, and we'd fix it. 

I think frankly it's a mix of troubles with MIME types Moz ain't comfortable
with, and something broken in PHP. I do however agree it is incredibly annoying. 

Comment 3

[Tony Tovar]

I think this is a dupe of bug 111470 (filed Nov. 2001).  They're reporting it as
a Tech Evangelism issue but don't specify if the issue is PHP or the web-server
config.  If this bug gets dupe'd to the older bug, the vote should be
transferred, too (for what good a vote does on tech evangelism!)

Comment 4

[Tony Tovar]

oops, the bug I referenced is itself (in part, at least) a dupe of an earlier
bug 65827 .  So this should almost certainly be dupe'd to that.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 65827 ***