280291 - Error opening certain html files saved by MS Internet Explorer

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[lawmay]

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

As shown by the workaround below, Firefox can't deal with certain file names
generated and saved by MS Internet Explorer.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In MS Internet Explorer 6.0.2800.1106 SP1 (hotfixes Q867801; Q833989), go to
http://www.aidsonline.com/pt/re/aids/fulltext.00002030-200010200-00029.htm;jsessionid=B68RTW7Qac60MrXwcZwWRrnF2lZJGdbkFgbCbFMVyfOGTprdpA74!-1907902876!-949856032!9001!-1?&fullimage=true
2. Save the URL to harddisk via File-Save As-Web Page,Complete, and choose File
Name  "test" (without quotes)
3. Exit Internet Explorer
4. In Firefox, open the file "test.htm" saved in step 2.
Actual Results:  
Firefox fails to display the graphics (Figure 1), which are part of the saved
file test.htm.


Workaround:

a. In directory test_files generated and saved to harddisk in step 2 ("Steps to
Reproduce"),
rename file
ServeImage;jsessionid=B68RTW7Qac60MrXwcZwWRrnF2lZJGdbkFgbCbFMVyfOGTprdpA74!-1907902876!-949856032!9001!-1!1106967569278.gif
to Fig1.gif

b. In your text editor, open file test.htm generated and saved to harddisk in
step 2 ("Steps to Reproduce")

c. Find all references to file
ServeImage;jsessionid=B68RTW7Qac60MrXwcZwWRrnF2lZJGdbkFgbCbFMVyfOGTprdpA74!-1907902876!-949856032!9001!-1!1106967569278.gif
and rename them to Fig1.gif

d. Save the changes

e. In Firefox, open test.htm saved in step d and hit the reload button

f. Now Firefox displays the graphics (Figure 1) in test.htm correctly

Comment 1

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Firefox is confused by the unescaped ";" in the URL. Don't know if this is a
real bug or expected behaviour, though.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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