230166 - Saving page prompts with chained file extension: utilities.shtml.htm

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Ratko Tomic]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

Trying to save files appends Mozilla generated extensions,lenghtening each save
from a single click to a 10+ times longer editing of file extensions. There
needs to be at least a global option "Leave file extensions alone." If it wants
to be smart, the browsers should at least check all the extensions of supplied
mime type and if any matches the one provided by the server, leave it as it is.
To save the excessive and almost always redundant registry lookups, a built in
table of most common equivalent types (such as html = htm = shtml...) can be
used to preempt the current half-baked "append The Ideal extension" logic. The
old "dumb" browsers were much smarter by simply recognizing they don't know how,
or whether it is possible  at all, to turn the tangled world of all the servers
and all the mime types and all the OS's/platforms into utopia. 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to page
2. Type Ctl-S to save

Actual Results:  
The Save As dialog will offer: utilities.shtml.htm which is not what anyone
would want, whether they support or oppose the extension mangling.


Expected Results:  
The expected prompt should be: 

 1) utilities.shtml

or in the worsyt case, if the extension mangling has to be done, no matter what,
for philosophical reasons, then at least:

  utilities.htm

(or whatever the first extension for text/html mime type is on the platform).



Changing mime types in registry, by adding shtml and cloning htm entry doesn't help.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Please test a more recent build; a lot has changed in this code since 1.5 (and
even since what will ship as 1.6).

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

> Changing mime types in registry, by adding shtml and cloning htm entry doesn't 
> help.

in current builds, that should work, especially if you have a string value under
HKCR\.shtml named Content Type with value text/html.

Comment 3

[Ratko Tomic]

Just installed 1.6 and the problem seems fixed. Great.

Comment 4

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

thanks, vrfy fixed by  Bug 163254