317313 - Firefox saves image under wrong file type

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 299372

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Pardal Freudenthal (:ShareBird)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051120 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051120 Firefox/1.5

On certain php pages that redirects to images Firefox ignores the real file name and type.

It works on Firefox 1.0.X.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/resolutions.php?w=1024&page=10
2.Choose any wallpaper clicking beside the thumb on any resolution
3.Right click on the image and choose "Save image as..."



Actual Results:  
Notice you have under "File name" - "goto.php".

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

This is probably a dupe of bug 299372.

Comment 2

[Francesco Montefoschi]

uhm i think it's not a bug

you download http://interfacelift.com/goto.php, the query string's var "url" should be ignored

don't you?

Comment 3

[Sokraates]

(In reply to comment #1)
> This is probably a dupe of bug 299372.
> 

Yup.

(In reply to comment #2)
> uhm i think it's not a bug
> 
> you download http://interfacelift.com/goto.php, the query string's var "url"
> should be ignored
> 
> don't you?
> 

It's true that this beaviour was introduced on purpose for speed's sake. Still, it should be fixed. As for "how" and "why isn't it fixed yet" read bug 299372.

Comment 4

[Pardal Freudenthal (:ShareBird)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 299372 ***