Closed Bug 317685 Opened 19 years ago Closed 17 years ago

"Save link as" on folder saves it as a file and not a folder

Categories

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Downloads API
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: gardin, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5

If i right click on a folder on a ftp-connection and choose "Save link as" (i'm using the Swedish version, so maybe it's not exactly correct), it downloads only the folder and saves it as a file, and the file contains this:

300: ftp://jogar008@hem.thg.se/public_html/achtung
200: filename content-length last-modified file-type
201: "achtung.jcp" 978 Sun%2C%2024%20Nov%202005%2013%3A25%3A00 FILE 
201: "classes" 0 Sun%2C%2024%20Nov%202005%2013%3A25%3A00 DIRECTORY 
201: "src" 0 Sun%2C%2024%20Nov%202005%2013%3A25%3A00 DIRECTORY 
201: "src_achtung.txt" 70 Sun%2C%2024%20Nov%202005%2013%3A25%3A00 FILE 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter a ftp-site
2. Right click on a folder and pick "Save link as"

Actual Results:  
I get a file that contains information about the files located under the folder i tried to download, but not a directory, a file with no extension.

Expected Results:  
Nothing, firefox works as normal.

Download the selected folder and the files in it, or maybe disable the save file as if it is a folder.
Saving the link saves the HTML page of the directory listing. This is most likely by design (and not quite what you want it to do - recursively download all files within the directory).
invalid (by Comment #1) or enhancement (save folder recursively from ftp) ??
Whiteboard: CLOSEME?
We don't support downloading a whole folder, nor do we plan to.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Whiteboard: CLOSEME?
Yeah, but that's not what i reported as a bug. I don't mean that you should add such a feature, what i was reporting is that i get a malformed text file containing a lot of worthless data. As i mentioned, a nicer approach would be to disable the Save File As.. when you are browsing an ftp-directory.

//Johan
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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