279695 - Content-Disposition: attachment is treated as a redirect

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Jay Rossiter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050124 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050124 Firefox/1.0+

Files which use "Content-Disposition: attachment" to cause a file-save a are
treated as a redirect instead of causing the content to be saved.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Navigate to the URL specified above (http://www.torrentspy.com)
2. Search for any term ("freeware" or "shareware" for example)
3. Click "Save Torrent"

Actual Results:  
Firefox displays a dialog stating that it was unable to locate the requested data.

LiveHTTPHeaders shows this sequence:

Request
Response 200(Using Content-Disposition: attachment)
Request (For the filename specified in the attachment header)
404


Log from LiveHTTPHeaders:

http://torrentspy.com/download.asp?id=138751

GET /download.asp?id=138751 HTTP/1.1
Host: torrentspy.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b)
Gecko/20050124 Firefox/1.0+
Accept:
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.7,ja;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: UTF-8,*
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://torrentspy.com/search.asp?mode=torrentdetails&id=138751

HTTP/1.x 200 OK
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 03:55:07 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Cache-Control: private, no-cache
Accept-Ranges: bytes
content-disposition: attachment;filename=248.apps.rar.torrent
Content-Length: 26314
Content-Type: application/x-bittorrent;name=248.apps.rar.torrent; Charset=UTF-8
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http://torrentspy.com/248.apps.rar.torrent

HEAD /248.apps.rar.torrent HTTP/1.1
Host: torrentspy.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b)
Gecko/20050124 Firefox/1.0+
Accept:
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.7,ja;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: UTF-8,*
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.x 404 Not Found
Content-Length: 1635
Content-Type: text/html
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 03:55:07 GMT
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Comment 1

[Jay Rossiter]

Traced to the "Download Sort" extension