364354 - Content-Disposition attachment vs 4xx status code from server

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Julian Reschke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

When a Content-Disposition response header of type "attachment" is sent back with a non-2xx status code (such as 403), Firefox behaves as if everything is ok, potentially tricking the user to believe that the page (s)he wanted to save was actually saved.

Allowing to continue saving probably is good, but there really should be a warning displayed that the content is unlikely to be the one the user expects.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Informing the user of the error seems reasonable in this case.

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was reported on Firefox 2.x or older, which is no longer supported and will not be receiving any more updates. I strongly suggest that you update to Firefox 3.6.3 or later, update your plugins (flash, adobe, etc.), and retest in a new profile. If you still see the issue with the updated Firefox, please post here. Otherwise, please close as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
http://www.mozilla.com
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+mode

Comment 4

[Julian Reschke]

I have added a test case at:

  http://greenbytes.de/tech/tc2231/#attonly403

Firefox now displays an error message, which is good. The actual text "file not found" though is sub-optimal.