87449 - When saving a regular file, it gets saved as gzip'd data

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 51852

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[Bernd K.]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18 i686; de-AT; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010607
BuildID:    2001060713

Saving a regular file to disk transforms it into gzip'd data.

file <file> returns this:
final_fantasy_tactics_d.txt: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Thu
Jan 01 01:00:00 1970, max compression, os: MS-DOS

G'unzipping the file returns the original file.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Save a HTML or text file to disk
2.Look at it with an editor
3.

Expected Results:  Saved it plain

Comment 1

[David Einstein]

Happens on w2k 2001062204 as well.  I'll betcha the content-encoding is gzip,
and we're not filtering it on save.  I'll check.

Comment 2

[David Einstein]

First some more detailed instructions, as db.gamefaqs.com does not let you go
directly to a page.

1) Go to http://db.gamefaqs.com
2) Select one one of the top 10 faqs
3) Save it.

Ok, My intuition was correct.  The header looks like

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Content-Encoding: gzip
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 20:35:56 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Last-Modified: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 12:55:58 GMT
Etag: "08385d61df2be1:7fc"
Content-Length: 41371
Expires: Wed, 01 Jan 1997 12:00:00 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=86400
Vary: Accept-Encoding
]

Comment 3

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

-> darin

This may be a dupe, but I can't find it.

File->Save as needs to strip content encodings, but right click->save link as
shouldn't...

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 51852 ***

Comment 5

[timeless]

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