59569 - Composer fails to append .html suffix to HTML file when saving

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 55025

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P3)

Description

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Using 11/8 N6 on WinNT 4.0 SP6.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001108 Netscape6/6.0

To repro:
1) File-->New-->Blank Page to Edit
2) edit the file to add some content
3) File-->Save Page As ... (onto an remote server directory so you can later
view the file through the browser)
4) enter a title
5) in the dialog, note that "HTML file" is the default file type; enter the
filename "usage" (no explicit filename extension) and hit return
6) in the browser, enter the pathname that should cause the file to be displayed
within the browser window, including the .html extension that should have been
appended automatically to an HTML file

Expected: file displays within browser
Actual: file not found because it was saved as "usage" instead of "usage.html"

Add'l information: if you then enter the pathname <whatever>/usage, the file
displays as text markup because the browser doesn't know it's an HTML file

Workaround: explicitly append ".html" to the filename in the Save As ... dialog

Comment 1

[Kathleen :Brade]

dup

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55025 ***

Comment 2

[Hans Peter Groendal]

Verified, this is a duplicate of bug 55025 "When saving a new html file: missing
extension."