244138 - Temporary .iso files being downloaded have a .exe extension.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[David Hume]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8

When downloading an ISO file using the download manager (eg
http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrakelinux/devel/iso/10.0/i586/Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download-CD3.i586.iso)
the temporary partial file stored in /tmp has an EXE extension rather than the
expected ISO.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start a download going of a .iso file.
2. List contents of /tmp directory.
3. Look for a .exe file.
4. Check the type of file.

Actual Results:  
$ ls /tmp
SNIP
zjsw0kj3.exe
/SNIP
$ file /tmp/zjsw0kj3.exe
/tmp/zjsw0kj3.exe: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data '10.0-Community-Download-3'

Expected Results:  
$ ls /tmp
SNIP
zjsw0kj3.iso
/SNIP
$ file /tmp/zjsw0kj3.iso
/tmp/zjsw0kj3.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data '10.0-Community-Download-3'

Comment 1

[Bernard Alleysson]

WFM windows firefox trunk 20040522
please test with a recent nightly, 1.6/0.8 is too old, thanks

Comment 2

[David Hume]

(In reply to comment #1)
> WFM windows firefox trunk 20040522
> please test with a recent nightly, 1.6/0.8 is too old, thanks

I have now tried it with the following nightly build:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040522 Firefox/0.8.0+

It now doesn't appear to use /tmp but rather downloads the file directly to the
final location (I behavior I much prefer) and uses the files actual name rather
than a random one as before. I'll wait for the next version to come out and try
it again.

Comment 3

[Bernard Alleysson]

marking WFM for now per reporter comment
please reopen if this is still a problem with Firefox 0.9 (unlikely unless
there's a last minute regression)