85854 - click downloading tar.gz over HTTP gunzips the file!

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 35956

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[LinuxLover]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4 i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1+) Gecko/20010613
BuildID:    2001061308

when 'LEFT clicking on a FTP url using HTTP and then saving'  mozilla gunzips
any 'tar.gz' files

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1) LEFT click on the above URL (mozilla nightly).  (or you can go to mozilla
home (http://www.mozilla.org) and then click the nightly build for Linux (the
above url)
2) choose 'save to disk' from the popup window



Actual Results:  1) file is saved as 'mozill.........tar.gz'. But the file is
now gunzipped and just a tar file!
2) do a 'file mozill..........tar.gz' to double check


Expected Results:  expected:
1) should save the file as 'mozi.........tar.gz' without unzipping.
2) or if it is smart enough to unzip, then it should change the file name to
'moz.... .tar')
But I prefer (1) b/c it produces no surprises, and saves disk space by
preserving the compression.


- I have noticed this bug since the days of netscape (if I remember correctly)
- RIGHT clicking and choosing 'save as' works as expected (ie foo.tar.gz is created)
- LEFT clicking on an FTP link using FTP protocol does the same thing
   (url :
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz)
- go into this dir and then LEFT click on the same file does the right thing!
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/
Hmm..!

Comment 1

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

Dupe of bug 35956, which was fixed today. (The fix should appear in the next 
set of nightlies)

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

Comment 2

[Andreas M. "Clarence" Schneider]

Verified. I thought the fix should be in 2001061308 (checked in 2001-06-12 22:48),
but probably it wasn't. Reporter, if you still see this in recent builds, please
reopen.