265723 - Save Link As fails, yet link can be opened successfully

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 160454

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[Stephen Gornick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

In the example, both Firefox and in Mozilla 1.7 the Save Link As menu item
reports "The link could not be saved.  The web page might have been removed or
had its name changed."   However that URL,
http://www.pinkelephant.com/pink_site/Asset_Repository/folder/Files/Documents/Brochures/San_Diego_Full_Brochure.pdf
can be opened by Firefox and Mozilla, just not using the right click menu item
"Save Link As".

I tried this with Mozilla 1.7 (Mozilla/5.0) and got the same error message. 
However in IE (v6.0) and Opera (v7.5) the link can be saved successfully and no
error message appears.  I got the same results w/ Firefox on Windows XP Pro as
well as w/ Firefox and Mozilla 1.7 on Windows 2000 Pro.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open http://digicoast.com/tmp/tst/test.html
2.Right click on the Test File on PinkElephant.com link
3.Save Link As 

Actual Results:  
Message Box with the error: "The link could not be saved.  The web page might
have been removed or had its name changed."

Expected Results:  
Directory box asking where to save the file.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

web-sniffer.net shows that
http://www.pinkelephant.com/pink_site/Asset_Repository/folder/Files/Documents/Brochures/San_Diego_Full_Brochure.pdf
returns "500 internal server error" if you use HEAD instead of GET.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 160454 ***