920190 - FF displays SPSS .sav files as plain/text instead offering to save them

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[Jonathan Foerster]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130910160258

Steps to reproduce:

Click a link to an SPSS .sav file


Actual results:

Text is displayed inline, and garbled.


Expected results:

Firefox should prompt to "Open with..." or "Save File"

Comment 1

[Adrian Stanciu]

Could you please provide a test case(link to a .sav file)? It could help us confirm this bug. Also did you try it in the latest nightly? 
Thanks!

Comment 2

[Jonathan Foerster]

The following URL has a number of links to .sav files which firefox attempts to render rather than download:
http://www.sagepub.com/ssds6e/study/resources.htm

HOWEVER I have not been able to reproduce the problem on other sites.  

Works here:
http://wps.aw.com/aw_deveaux_stats_series/61/15644/4004949.cw/content/index.html

and here:
http://www.pewinternet.org/Shared-Content/Data-Sets/2013/January-2013--Mobile-Shopping-%28omnibus%29.aspx

With apologies, I am marking the issue resolved-invalid.
(In reply to Adrian Stanciu from comment #1)
> Could you please provide a test case(link to a .sav file)? It could help us
> confirm this bug. Also did you try it in the latest nightly? 
> Thanks!

Comment 3

[Adrian Stanciu]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0 ID:20131002030201 CSet: e3c84e9f2490

I reopened the bug for the following reasons: 
- I tried in Chrome and IE10 and both offered to save the files.
- I click the files in the web pages where the reporter said it works and, indeed, FF offers to save the files.

This looks like a bug to me and am of the opinion that we need a reduced testcase. Also couldn't find a regression window. Builds that i can reproduce this bug in go as far back as 2009-01-01.

Comment 4

[Ciprian Muresan [:cmuresan], Ecosystem QA]

Hi,

I haven't managed to reproduce this issue on Windows 10 and 7 on the latest Firefox release (44.0.2) and latest Nightly (47.0a1) with the links provided in the description.
Considering this I will close this issue as Resolved-WORKSFORME untill someone can provide another link where this issue is reproducible or a simplified testcase.

Thanks,
Cipri.