192924 - Save actual source code as data for open in Excel as tab delimited format

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Robert Lukitsch]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

In version 1.1 it saved correctly the source or actual data downloaded.  In 1.2
it would give the log in page instead.  In 1.3 Excel opens file as html instead
of data.  Mozilla seems to be converting file to html instead of actual
unchanged raw data file.  I used to be able to save pages as tab delimited files
and now it seems to be changing that format to some sort of html output so Excel
has trouble interpreting.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download tab delimited files as html and attempt to save it.
2. Save the souce and not the text
3. Open in Excel

Actual Results:  
I get an html version in Excel, not the tab delimited.

Expected Results:  
Save the tab delimited format so Excel can open it as a worksheet.

Comment 1

[Nicu Buculei]

Robert, can you make a test case ? e.g.: provide an URL or attach a file

Comment 2

[Chris Lyon]

->file handling

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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