267143 - When using pages generated using post queries that return text/plain, it is impossible to save the page using "Save page as...."

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 263698

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[David J Craigon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

In all Mozilla-like browsers I've tried (including the latest Firefox), I always
get "The link could not be saved. The web page might have been removed or had
its name changed." when returning text/plain from a POST query. An example
(using my website- wondered why I was interested :)) follows

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
For example:
1. Visit
http://affymetrix.arabidopsis.info/narrays/predownload.pl?cluster=yes&experimentid=16&arraydesignid=-200000
2. Press the Start Downloading! button. This runs a POST query on the server
3. Try and Save Page As...

Actual Results:  
Error message as described above

Expected Results:  
Allowed me to save the data as a text file. This works in IE and Opera.

By way of contrast,
http://affymetrix.arabidopsis.info/narrays/matrix.txt?cluster=yes&experimentid=16&arraydesignid=-200000
is the same page, only using GET rather than POST. This does allow you to Save
Page As...

I'm not sure that this works with any content-type, not just text/plain.

Comment 1

[David J Craigon]

Also, sorry, I might have misfiled this under the wrong category- wasn't really
sure.

Comment 2

[Gary van der Merwe]

Either a dup of Bug 166786 or Bug 115174. Not sure which one.

Comment 3

[David J Craigon]

I saw those two bugs, but they didn't seem to quite tally with my symptoms-
although the disease is probably the same.

Comment 4

[B. K. Oxley (binkley)]

Please implement this.  Very handy.

Comment 5

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

This works for me, but it appears as though has page changed since this bug was
reported, so the bug may still be there, but it no longer shows on this page. We
need revised steps to reproduce.

This definitely works with text/html. You can try it out here
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~jbs/resources/perl/perl-cgi/programs/form1-POST.html

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Actually, the script in question (or the server) was just broken.  Dealing with
such broken serers was fixed for Mozilla in bug 160454.  The Firefox bug on the
same is bug 263698.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 263698 ***