298309 - "Cannot open the file. Verify that the path and filename are corrrect and try again."

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[neuropulse]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

When trying to view Windows Media Player video at http://www.cnn.com/video/, the
error message "Cannot open the file.  Verify that the path and filename are
corrrect and try again." is given.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.cnn.com/video/
2. Click to view any video.

Actual Results:  
A window that is suppossed to play video opens, and after a while the rror
message "Cannot open the file.  Verify that the path and filename are corrrect
and try again." is given.

Expected Results:  
A window should open and play video.

It works with Safari.

Comment 1

[Dmitri Zdorov]

I found this to happen at following conditions:
a user of non-English (not Latin char based) OS, saves a file on his/her desktop
and file can not be open because Firefox converts word "Desktop" written in
foreign language to %XX Unicode coded characters and thus can't find that file.

IE Handles it correctly. The best way probably is not to convert words, but just
use them as they are.

To replicate this bug it would be enough to create a folder with non-ASCII name
and save html file there. You will not be able to open it. And not only that -
you can not save file to that folder from FireFox. 

This is very serious issue (and I wanted to change OS and priority, but I can't
if I want to leave notes for this bug) The point is it applies to any OS

Comment 2

[Eric Schissel]

After receiving this message, if I close the window with the embedding that created the message (or the active window if that's changed, I think- need to test that?), Firefox 1.5.0.6, Mozilla 1.7.13, and every less recent version of both that I've tried, crash practically immediately after. (This may be caused by another bug related to dialog boxes and crashes- I'm not positive!)
Not quite sure whether to change this to confirmed, or for that matter report this comment as a new bug...

Comment 3

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Windows Media Player for Mac is no longer a supported plug-in (by Microsoft or by Firefox). Please try this using Flip4Mac. Is this reproducible using Firefox 2.0.0.3 or later?

fwiw, this WFM using Firefox 2.0.0.3 and Flip4Mac 2.1.

Comment 4

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Closing this bug as WORKSFORME, per comment 3. If you're still seeing this, per comment 3, please comment with more information before reopening.