268910 - cannot save page, error message makes no sense

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Nick Lerissa]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Sorry this site is secure, but it is the only page where I can
make this problem happen.

When I right click on the page and select "Save Page As..." a modal dialog
box comes up with a title of "Save Link" and the following message:

The link could not be saved. The web page might have been
removed or had its name changed.

In the context of saving a page this message does not seem to make
much sense. I'm really not sure why I can't save this page if it has been
loaded.
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Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an account on http://www.csaa.com/home/
2. Ask for a car quote
https://www.csaa.com/au/ssl/buyacar/aaavps/0,1083,1002020101,00.html
3. After the request has been sent, you will get a list of dealers.
4. Right click on the page to "Save Page As..."

Actual Results:  
A modal dialog box comes up with a title of "Save Link" and the following 
message:

The link could not be saved. The web page might have been
removed or had its name changed.


Expected Results:  
Either an appropriate error message (although I'm not sure what is wrong with
the page) or the page should get saved once a location is provided.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Firefox has forked the save-as code.

Comment 2

[David C. Navas]

Attachment: I repro'd this bug with the following attachment.

Symptoms are the same, not sure if the cause is....
Note that, you probably won't be able to follow the link as it is to a yahoo
group  area, but I hope whatever is in the URL that is causing the problem is
obvious from the URL (I don't see a problem -- I've tried eliminating the '
'/%20 in the folder name, but that doesn't work either).  I've also tried to
remove the 'action' association with .doc, to no avail.

Rather annoying to have at least some of our yahoo group files unavailable via
firefox :(

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Without an actual example of a broken site, this bug report isn't of much use.
Aren't the symptoms the same as those from bug 160454?

Comment 4

[David C. Navas]

Yes, this might be a dup of 160454 (or maybe more properly of 263698).  While an 
unadorned GET of a working URI returns a 404 (I assume I'm missing a required 
header of some sort), a similar HEAD request is returning 403.  If there's a build
I can test, I'd be happy to do so (I don't have a mozilla build setup to test the 
patch as indicated).

Comment 5

[Stephen Smith]

Both potential duplicate bugs - bug 160454 and bug 263698 - have now been
resolved. I am unable to replicate this bug in Deer Park Alpha 2 (Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712 Firefox/1.0+), and
if no-one else is able to replicate this bug I might be tempted to suggest
simply marking it as a duplicate of bug 263698.

Comment 6

[richard seymour]

Just verifying that installing Deer Park 20050806 in place of FF 1.06
fixed this bug (using "Save Link As..." vs "Save Page") for my WindowsXP
laptop.  It does seem a duplicate of 263698

Comment 7

[lopthopman-bugz]

Here is a unsecured webpage reproing the problem:

 http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/gear/2005-09-05-preteen-cell-phones_x.htm

The problem doesn't happen on all pages, just certain pages.  Pasting the URL
into an older Netscape doesn't show the problem, nscp is able to save the file
as one would expect.

Comment 8

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061126 Minefield/3.0a1 ID:2006112602 [cairo]

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