344659 - Download gives infinite stream of garbage

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Miles Reid]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

Trying to download a beta version of the software
> http://www.bluesky.com/download/Textures220a.dmg
gives a pile of garbage (sample below), that continues for several
minutes until I do a force quit. I get exactly the same result on 4
different Macs running the latest 10.4.7 and 10.3.9.

The same software downloads perfectly on Safari. I have
also informed the company of this bug.

Miles

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Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. dial http://www.bluesky.com/news/news_frames.html
2. click on first icon
3. wish you hadn't
Actual Results:  
Pile of garbage that continues for several minutes or until
Force Quit

Expected Results:  
On Safari, the same steps lead to a peaceful download of a disk image

Same result on several different Macs running latest 10.4.7 or 10.3.9
software and latest Firefox

Comment 1

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

The server is sending the file as 
  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

rather than something more accurate. When Content-Type is defined Firefox trusts the server to get it right, so it just displays the file in the browser. Other browsers sniff the file based on content and/or extension. So, the server should be configured not to lie about the file it is sending - please contact their system admins.

The workaround is to do the Mac equivalent of right click on the download link, then select "Save link as".