325551 - Fails to remember save/open automatically next time with Content-Disposition: attachement

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 236541

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[patma491]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Totally ignores my default download action if the server gives looks simContent-Disposition: attachement.
Please note that this isn't at all the same problem as reported in Bug 299372, even though it may look similar at first glance.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open url first time.
2. Select either 'open with' or 'save to disk' and select 'do this automatically to files like this from now on'.
3. Open url again.

Actual Results:  
Same dialog box appears asking again to 'open with' or 'save to disk'.

Expected Results:  
Remembered my selection and either saved or opened the file automatically.

Plugins, extensions and downloadmanagers all fail, because firefox doesn't pass along any info, just opens the dialog immediately.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244757/EN-US/

It's very silly having some random optional header field changing download behaviour for know file types.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

This looks like a duplicate of Bug 236541 although this URL still doesn't work in trunk.
"Save to disk" works but not "Open with".

Comment 2

[Elmar Ludwig]

That is because showing the dialog is intentional in this case ("Open with"), see bug 236541 comment #29 and bug 236541 comment #38. See also bug 285976, which is about indicating this fact in the download dialog.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 236541 ***