270940 - apple.com - downloading a os x diskimage

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[guenter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

if you download a diskimage a dialog box appears which says: you have choosen to
open xxx.dmg which is a binary file. What shoud Firefox do with this file? only
thing you can choos from is "Save to Disc". "Open with" and "Do this
automatically for files like this from now on" are disabeld

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.http://wsidecar.apple.com/cgi-bin/nph-reg3rdpty1.pl/product=05034&platform=osx&method=sa/dmm1.dmg
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
dialog where you can choos to download the discimage or cancle

Expected Results:  
it should download automatically (at least the second time)

Comment 1

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 234243 ***

Comment 2

[timeless]

[timeless@viper tmp]$ HEAD
'http://wsidecar.apple.com/cgi-bin/nph-reg3rdpty1.pl/product=05034&platform=osx&method=sa/dmm1.dmg'
200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:35:18 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "10c037-547a1-4189575c"
Server: Apache
Content-Length: 346017
Content-Type: text/plain
Last-Modified: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 22:10:36 GMT
Client-Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:33:47 GMT
Client-Peer: 207.36.120.124:80
Client-Response-Num: 1

I'd rather this bug live in tech evangelism. apple should fix their server.

Comment 3

[Felix Miata]

Conforming summary to TFM item 10 at 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/site/procedures.html#file-new

Comment 4

[Frankie]

Apple now sends DMG files as application/octet-stream, which leads to the desired save file UI.

frankie:~ fuy$ curl -I "http://wsidecar.apple.com/cgi-bin/nph-reg3rdpty2.pl/prouct=14243&cat=57&platform=osx&method=sa/SecUpd2007-006Univ.dmg"
HTTP/1.0 302 Found
Server: Netscape-Enterprise/3.6
Date: 11.27.07.122757
Location: http://download.info.apple.com/Mac_OS_X/061-3516.20070622.343N8/SecUpd2007-006Univ.dmg
Content-type: application/x-macbinary

frankie:~ fuy$ curl -I http://download.info.apple.com/Mac_OS_X/061-3516.20070622.343N8/SecUpd2007-006Univ.dmg
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:34:34 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Darwin) mod_ssl/2.8.24 OpenSSL/0.9.7l mod_jk/1.2.25 PHP/5.2.4 DAV/1.0.3
Location: http://supportdownload.apple.com/download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/Mac_OS_X/downloads/061-3516.20070622.343N8/SecUpd2007-006Univ.dmg
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

frankie:~ fuy$ curl -I http://supportdownload.apple.com/download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/Mac_OS_X/downloads/061-3516.20070622.343N8/SecUpd2007-006Univ.dmg
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Darwin) mod_ssl/2.8.24 OpenSSL/0.9.7l mod_jk/1.2.15 PHP/5.2.4 DAV/1.0.3
Last-Modified: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:55:36 GMT
ETag: "1d13be-484821-467bf0f8"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 4737057
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Cache-Control: max-age=60
Expires: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:35:45 GMT
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:34:45 GMT
Connection: keep-alive