47007 - Non-existent file:///... treated as unknown type

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 44261

(Core :: Networking: File, defect, P3)

Description

[Hallvard B Furuseth]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u; en-US; m18) Gecko/20000730
BuildID:    2000073010

When I visit a non-existent file: URL, Mozilla thinks I'm opening
a file of unknown type (e.g. text/html for a *.html file) and asks
for an application to view it with.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on the example URL or type Alt-L file:///none.html


Actual Results:  A pop-up window says
   You are about to download a file of type text/html.
   This file is unrecognized by Mozilla.
   You can save it or open it with another application.
   [More info...] [Save file...] [Pick app...] [Cancel]

Expected Results:  A 'no such file' error message, maybe the output from strerror().

BTW, 'This file is unrecognized by Mozilla' should probably
be   'This file TYPE is ...'


Don't know the correct component for this bug.
Maybe "Networking" or "Plug-ins"?

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

setting bug status to New Over to Networking.  confirmed with 073108 mozilla
win32 M18 bits on NT

Comment 2

[Rich Burridge]

Transferring to PC/Windows NT as confirmed by Asa. This is a tier-1
platform and this means the bug will receive more attention.

Comment 3

[Aaron Kaluszka]

*** Bug 48896 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Gagan]

->mscott (I think he has a dup)

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 44261 ***

Comment 6

[Scott Brodmerkle]

Verified dupe.

Comment 7

[benc]

-> file