657621 - SmartScreen Filter filename bug

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 311742

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Daniel Marschall]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1

If a person at MSN Live Messenger sends me a JPG link, Firefox is unable to save the image.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Somebody sends me a Link to a JPG file over MSN/Live Messenger.

The SmtartScreen site http://link.smartscreen.live.com/?l=... resp. http://link.live.net/... opens and redirects me to the JPG file. (There seem to be differences between a immediately redirect and a redirect over a warning page)

Actual Results:  
When I try to save the JPG file, Firefox tries to name it link.live.net.htm (contains the JPG, but with wrong filename) or link.smartscreen.live.com.htm (contains HTML, NOT the JPG)

Expected Results:  
Name the file correctly like in the URL bar. The redirection has happened, so the filename may not be the same the referer (= Live SmartScreen).

Workaround: Do a F5 reload and then try again to save the image. Now the filename should be correct.

Comment 1

[AndreiD[QA]]

Could not verify the issue on:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110523 Firefox/6.0a1

*Note: Can you attach a screen video capture of the issue, maybe?

Comment 2

[Daniel Marschall]

Hello. Please look at this video I made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APh6AR1O-eA . I clicked the reload button, but the save function did not work. As soon as I hit CTRL+F5, it did work.

Comment 3

[Daniel Marschall]

Please guys... MSN is a well known software and Firefox cannot work together with it? Mozilla is pushing version numbers so heavily and this bug was not touched at all.

I can confirm this bug at every computer I have. As soon as somebody sends me a link to a JPG file and I try to save it, Firefox will write a file called "OptOut.jpg" which contains a HTML page. To save the JPG file I have to do a Ctrl+F5.

Comment 4

[Daniel Marschall]

As I was working on a new script I could finally reproduce a part of the issue in the latest FF 16.0.0.2 .

Do the following:

Make a HTML with a FORM an let it submit to redirect.php .

Let redirect.php redirect to my_picture.png using header('Location: my_picture.png').

(my_picture.png gets rewritten using mod_rewrite)

Try to save my_picture.png to your harddisk. You will see the file name "redirect.php" .

Difference to the original MSN scenario: The file contents downloaded are not corrupt.

Comment 5

[Daniel Marschall]

Here is a reproduction:

http://www.daniel-marschall.de/temp/firefox_filename_bug_reproduction/

Comment 6

[Daniel Marschall]

Hello. Would you PLEASE finally confirm this bug? I have given you a perfect reproduction script. You just need to click it and see it with your own eyes. This bug annoys me since 2011!

http://www.daniel-marschall.de/temp/firefox_filename_bug_reproduction/

Comment 7

[YF (Yang)]

(In reply to Daniel Marschall from comment #6)
> Hello. Would you PLEASE finally confirm this bug? I have given you a perfect
> reproduction script. You just need to click it and see it with your own
> eyes. This bug annoys me since 2011!
> 
> http://www.daniel-marschall.de/temp/firefox_filename_bug_reproduction/

WFM on Fx43 Win10. This bug is still reproducible on the latest version?

Comment 8

[Daniel Marschall]

Yes, I just reproduced it today with the latest stable Firefox, on a Windows Server 2008R2. 

So you clicked the redirect button, saved the picture, and the suggested filename is dolphin.jpg and not redirect.php? 

How exactly did you save the picture? I did it by right clicking on the picture.

Comment 9

[YF (Yang)]

Hmmm, I seen dolphin.jpg when press Ctrl+S, redirect.php.jpg when click context menu - Save Image As...

Comment 10

[Daniel Marschall]

(In reply to YF (Yang) from comment #9)
> Hmmm, I seen dolphin.jpg when press Ctrl+S, redirect.php.jpg when click
> context menu - Save Image As...

Good. Then you could reproduce it. I didn't knew that there was a difference between the different ways to save the file.

For me, it works if I press Ctrl+S or use "File -> Save page as". It does not work when I right-click on the picture and click "Save image as".

Also, I could reproduce the same bug at Firefox for Android. Here, the saved filename is "redirect.php.jpg", although the URL bar showed "dolphin.jpg", too.

Comment 11

[YF (Yang)]

Dupe of bug 311742?

Comment 12

[Daniel Marschall]

(In reply to YF (Yang) from comment #11)
> Dupe of bug 311742?

Probably, yes. Since MSN Messenger doesn't exist anymore, I cannot verify what the SmartScreen filter actually did. But 311742 matches to what I tested on my reproduction page.

Bug 311742 is more than 10 years old, and was even ported to Firefox for Android. Can PLEASE someone fix it?

Comment 13

[YF (Yang)]

I hope it to be resolved, but it is no progress at present.