309611 - This URL is a rar file, Firefox can't download that file, but says "... could not be saved, because the source file could not be read."

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 180672

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[liuwangxia]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050918 Firefox/1.6a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050918 Firefox/1.6a1

After I sign up a account of this site, and sign in the site, then go to this
url to download that file, Firefox can't download that file(when use IE ,then
file name is IGESImportAC.rar), but show a message box with the following:
c:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCAL~1\Temp\s6fzpo0m.rar could not be saved, because the
source file could not be read.
Try again later, or contact the server administrator.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.goto http://bbs.icax.cn/register.php to sign up a account of that site.
2.goto http://www.icax.cn/ to login that site.
3.goto http://www.icax.cn/soft.php?id=342227

Actual Results:  
Firefox can't download that file, but show a message box with the following:
c:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCAL~1\Temp\s6fzpo0m.rar could not be saved, because the
source file could not be read.
Try again later, or contact the server administrator.

Expected Results:  
download that file properly.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

This looks like bug 180672. Seeing anything about contentAreaUtils.js in the JS
console?

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

Try the workaround mentioned in that bug (call the url). Does it help?

Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 180672 ***

Comment 4

[John T]

Reporter, please read bug #310468. Does this sound like your problem? I think
this problem and others like it are caused by filetypes that Mozilla, Seamonkey
and Firefox don't know about. Some types (exe, zip) are handled correctly.
Others, like rar and bin, either don't have programs registered in the system to
open them, or Mozilla etc doesn't know about them and treats unknown programs
like files mean't for plugins. Files for plugins are saved in temp and then
Mozilla/Seamonkey/Firefox tries to open them with a program registered in the
system. This is ok for a plugin file to be opened immediately, but not for a
file you want to save.