295276 - .tar appended to filename when directing file to helper app Winzip

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Terry Carroll]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

When downloading a file ending with .tgz (e.g. foo.tgz) to a helper app, Firefox
appends a spurious ".tar" to the filename (e.g. foo.tgz.tar).  The spurious
suffix is not appended if the "save to disk" option is used instead, which is an
apparent distinction from bug 176482.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to URL http://www.zope.org/Members/bowerymarc/mp3info-0.3.tgz
2. Indicate "open with [helper app (e.g., winzip)"
3. Note erronoeusly named file in temp directory

Actual Results:  
helper app given wrong filename, unable to process.  For winzip in particular,
the error-message is the application-specific "Error reading header after
processing 0 entries"; other helper apps may have different messages.

Expected Results:  
passed correctly-named file to the helper app, which would open it correctly.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to Core bug 144334?

Comment 2

[Terry Carroll]

I can't tell if it's related to bug 144334.  Even if related, though, it cannot
be a dupe: bug 144334 is closed as RESOLVED FIXED, and this bug is still extant
in the most current release.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Terry Carroll]

problem still exists (firefox 1.0.7), do not automatically and erroneously mark
this unresolved bug as resolved.

Comment 5

[David Rennalls]

Unconfirmed ? 
This is definitely still a problem on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

Comment 6

[Richard Smith]

Still present in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7.

Comment 7

[Stephanie Daugherty [:sdaugherty]]

WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a5pre) Gecko/20070531 Minefield/3.0a5pre

Comment 8

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

Resolving old UNCONFIRMED Download Manager bugs as INCOMPLETE.  If you still see this issue, please reopen.

To mark all these bug changes as read, filter on ONOMATOPOEIA.

Comment 9

[Richard Smith]

Still a problem with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13

Comment 10

[Richard Smith]

Also fails in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008032805 Minefield/3.0pre

Can someone with the necessary rights please reopen this?