360811 - lightning xpi downloaded with bad filename

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Calendar :: Website, defect)

Description

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

right click & save as on the Windows / Linux x86 / Mac OS X download links at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/download.html gives you e.g. Windows.htm as the filename, which is a bit confusing (linux fx trunk 20061115). perhaps linking directly to releases.m.o would be a useful compromise in this case? (presumably it regresses bug 335276 of course...)

Comment 1

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

Works fine for me using Opera 9.02. Issue with your browser?

Comment 2

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

yes, firefox is funny like that (and konqueror fwiw). bug 299372

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

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

Comment 4

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

repoened; clearly not a of bug 299372. either
- fix by changing download linkage until fixes to 299372 ship
- wontfix and hope 299372 fixed eventually
- worksforme after fix of 299372

Comment 5

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

s/repoened/reopened/ and s/a of/a dup of/, too.

Comment 6

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

(In reply to comment #0)
> perhaps linking directly to releases.m.o would be a useful compromise

Unfortunately, doing so would prevent us from capturing download numbers.

You're right that this isn't a duplicate of bug 299372, but it sure is blocked by it (unless we decide to change the linking).

Comment 7

[John Eikenberry]

(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > perhaps linking directly to releases.m.o would be a useful compromise
> 
> Unfortunately, doing so would prevent us from capturing download numbers.

There are alternative ways of handling this. You could have the download cgi script named the same as the file to be downloaded or you could just processes the logs. Either should be fairly easy to do depending on your setup.

Comment 8

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

We will not change the behaviour and reinvent the wheel here. We will wait until bug 299372 is fixed.

--> WONTFIX

Comment 9

[Stefan Sitter [:ssitter]]

*** Bug 364800 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

*** Bug 364800 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Joey Minta]

(In reply to comment #8)
> We will not change the behaviour and reinvent the wheel here. We will wait
> until bug 299372 is fixed.
> 
> --> WONTFIX
> 
I'm beginning to disagree with this decision.  I'd much rather just point straight to the xpi.  Better to have more users download the extension, rather than a smaller set which we can count, and a second set that are frustrated with the experience and may not come back.

Comment 13

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

We have to work around this. Pointing at somebody else is easy, but won't fix the situation for our users.

Comment 14

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

After discussing this with jminta, mvl and lilmatt, I've substituted the links with direct links to releases.mozilla.org

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