249674 - Save Page As sometimes saves as gzip

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[jcoles0727]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

File > Save Page As can result in a gibberish file. Re-loading the saved file, I
see a page filled with special and foreign characters, like:
"ì]ysÛ8²ÿ;úNMl×Z¢|(—,åÉGïÚ‰ÊR&;¯Rå‚HH☸<5x01‡7æ#Ò:ÀÂê±i%vdÝÚ" and so on. 

I can't predict which URLs will produce this result, but one example is the page
given in the URL field above. 

Checking about:config, I found browser.download.save_converter_index was set to
1 (don't know how it got that way). I reset it to default (0). File saves now
seem ok (only tested on the example given in the URL field). Does this
about:config setting correspond to any option available in the GUI? Even if this
is a legitimate character set option, its side effect might be worth a mention
in the Readme.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Navigate to an article on a newspaper web site. e.g. www.globeandmail.com
2.Go File > Save Page As (HTML only).
3.Load saved page into browser.

Actual Results:  
Often the page is saved properly, sometimes it is gibberish.

Expected Results:  
Saved HTML page should display properly.

Comment 1

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

> Does this about:config setting correspond to any option available in the GUI? 

yes. it's the choice you make in the dropdown of "save page", i.e. "web page,
html only" or "web page, complete" or "text file"


at a wild guess, that page is saved but content-encoding isn't undone... (the
page in the URL field is indeed sent with Content-Encoding: gzip)

guess that makes it a file handling problem

Comment 2

[Jesiah S]

I see this also on LInux 2004091107.  I'm sure this is a dupe but can't seem to
find a non-fixed bug.
You can use the command `gzcat foo.html > bar.html` to get your saved file.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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