202859 - clicking the download link opens the file in the browser

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 187062

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Eric Martin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030411 Phoenix/0.5+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030411 Phoenix/0.5+

In the skins pages of http://www.divx.com, when "Download Now" is clicked, the
"Save to disk" option is not displayed.  Instead, the file is opened in the
browser, in unreadable text.  The file is of type *.dps, which is a Divx Player
skin.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to page http://www.divx.com/skins/detail.php?id=91 as an example, or any
skin on the page.
2. Click on the yellow "Download Now" link, which directs you to
http://www.divx.com/skins/download.php?skin_id=91
3. The file to download, "http://download.divx.com/skinz/CompressionChamber.dps"
opens a large unreadable text file, which should be a Dixv Player skin,

Actual Results:  
A page with unreadable text is displayed.

Expected Results:  
Prompted to save the file to disk.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

The server is saying the file type is text/plain, so the browser is treating it
that way.  Not a browser bug.

->TE

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 187062 ***