204744 - left click fails to download and save .hqx file

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Jim Brown]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OSF1 alpha; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030505
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OSF1 alpha; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/xx -> trunk 030505 21:50

If I left click on a link for an .hqx file then mozilla starts-and-stops but no
save dialog appears and no file gets downloaded (small hqx file).
If I try this for a large .hqx file then mozilla stays busy for the length of
time it would take to download the .hqx file.
If I left click on a .dmg file then a save dialog does appear and the file is
downloaded.
If I right click and select 'save page as' then I get a save dialog and can save
the .hqx file.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. left click on an .hqx file or try to open this link
http://homepage.mac.com/remsoftware/earlsaccess.hqx
2. mozilla appears to read the file but does not display a save dialog. 
3.



Expected Results:  
produced a save dialog and written the .hqx file to disk.

Comment 1

[wacheo]

confirming on linux build 2003050208. (I can find the file in the cache, however)

Here's the headers to that URL:
$ curl -I http://homepage.mac.com/remsoftware/earlsaccess.hqx
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 17:31:17 GMT
Content-Length: 42307
Content-Type: application/mac-binhex40
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Darwin)
Last-Modified: Tue, 06 May 2003 06:51:38 GMT
ETag: "1af17c0-a543-3eb75b7a"
Via: 1.1 netcache03 (NetCache NetApp/5.2.1R2D2)

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

For comparison : worksforme in build 2003050609 on Mac OS X 10.2.6

Comment 3

[benc]

-> download manager for starters.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

possible related to the binhex decoder ?

-> File Handling is better

Comment 5

[Jim Brown]

This is still a problem in 1.5 beta
(Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OSF1 alpha; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030723)

Comment 6

[joerg]

leftclicking adds file to download manager but download doesnt start and cannot
be started manually

Comment 7

[Jim Brown]

When I left click the file is NOT added to the download manager.
The file is downloaded by mozilla.
If I right click and select 'save link target as' then I get a save
dialog and the file does appear in the download manager and is saved
in my download area.

Comment 8

[Jim Brown]

This hqx file (main report, comment 1) uses 'cr' as line terminator (mac
convention).  Perhaps this is part of the problem.

Comment 9

[Andrei Purice]

Hey Jim,
Can you still reproduce this issue or should we close it?

Comment 10

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Redirect a needinfo that is pending on an inactive user to the triage owner.
:Gijs, since the bug has high severity, could you have a look please?

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