207238 - download will not work

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[James Rome]

On the URL
http://www.powerquest.com/updates/index.cfm?ProductLine=PM&FromVersion=8&ProductLanguage=EN
if you click on the download link, it seems to stop at the .exe and will not get
the actual zip file. Or at least it gives it the wrong name.

This is build 2003050714 on win2k

Comment 1

[James Rome]

well, the whole thing is misleading. It actually downloads an Akami executable,
and that downloads the patch, so I guess it was working.

Comment 2

[Olivier Cahagne]

already filed: bug 166641. Not sure about the investigation and resolution though.
The site is using content-disposition (as shown with a sniffer), could be
related to bug 185618.

[...]
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: Apache
Last-Modified: Tue, 27 May 2003 15:12:44 GMT
Content-Length: 102605
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
ETag: "35b4a78-1900a-3c8ccbb7"
Content-Disposition: filename=dps-dw.exe
Cache-Control: max-age=7200
Content-Disposition: filename=dps-dw.exe
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 15:12:44 GMT
Connection: Keep-Alive
[...]

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> reopening 

You get a .exe file (which is correct) but the filename itself is wrong due to
the broken header



HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: Apache
Last-Modified: Tue, 27 May 2003 15:05:07 GMT
Content-Length: 102605
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
ETag: "223cb5-1900a-3c8ccbb7"
Content-Disposition: filename=dps-dw.exe
Content-Disposition: filename=dps-dw.exe
Cache-Control: max-age=6685
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 15:12:54 GMT
Connection: keep-alive

(see the double Content-Disposition line)

BZ: DO you know what we should do with this ?

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Do with what?  What is the problem, exactly?  The fact that we end up with a
filename of "dps-dw.exe, filename=dps-dw.exe"?  We can't treat ',' or ' ' as
ending the filename, since sites put them in filenames without quoting the
filename.  And the headers:

Content-Disposition: filename=dps-dw.exe
Content-Disposition: filename=dps-dw.exe

are precisely equivalent to the headers:

Content-Disposition: filename=dps-dw.exe, filename=dps-dw.exe

per the HTTP spec.  So I don't really see what else we could do here.

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Thanks BZ !
(FYI: Do with this bug..)

-> invalid

Someone could write a mail to powerquest that they "fix" their header...