57625 - nightly releases are only tarred not gzipped

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 35956

(mozilla.org :: Miscellaneous, task, P3)

Description

[Marc d'Entremont]

When downloading a nightly build the file is a the name mozilla-blah-blah.tar.gz
when it is not a gzipped file. Very confusing. The extension of gz should be
used to indicate that the file is gzipped.
I've been trying to figure out why the gzipped files were not recognized by gzip
only to find out that I've been duped by the extension.
Odd thing is when I ftp to your site the file download is a valid gzipped file.

cram@24 cram]$ file mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz: GNU tar archive
[cram@24 cram]$ gunzip mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz

gunzip: mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz: not in gzip format
[cram@24 cram]$

Comment 1

[Tom Mraz]

Hmm... I think it's a bug of mozilla. It automatically ungzips files when
downloaded. It shouldn't do this for other than viewable files. Especially it
shouldn't do this when you save the file by rightclicking the link. It is a
regression and it was mentioned long time ago in bugzilla but I don't know the
bug number.

Comment 2

[Mitchell Baker]

Leaf, do you know the bug number by chance?

Comment 3

[Tom Mraz]

It's a dup of bug 35956

Comment 4

[Daniel (Leaf) Nunes]

marking dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 35956 ***

Comment 5

[Scott Brodmerkle]

Verified dupe.