328588 - Files that are called on CSS are not downloaded when using "Save Page As"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 115107

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Ivo Goncalves]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

It appears that Firefox has an issue when dealing with files linked on CSS (external file or otherwise). Normally, files like background images are downloaded on online rendering, but when the user selects to save the page (Save Page As option), the page is spidered and all files donwloaded into a folder with the same name as the file. The problem is that the files mentioned on CSS are not downloaded, and this causes that the saved page on disk might be quite different from what had been rendered online.

I came upon this problem, when I went to [ http://www.web20generator.com/index.aspx ], and generated a site template. When I tried to save it as instructed there, I noticed I lost all of the background files stated on the CSS file.

I reckon this issue shouldn't be hard to fix. It should be fixed though, after all, it's part of the CSS Standard that Firefox is failing on.

I can reply to questions, if there are any.

-Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a site using CSS links (is this even an official name?)
2. Use the Save Page As option, Web Page Complete
3. Notice that files linked under CSS, like background images are not present at the resulting saved folder
Actual Results:  
No files linked under CSS where saved.

Expected Results:  
Saved those files as requested to.

Seems like Firefox handles file saving like IE. This is one of the drawbacks of it.

This also happens when running Firefox on Safe Mode.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 115107 ***