96490 - Text files saved as garbage

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 121001

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[msmith7]

If you save a text file in 0.9.3 it appears as garbage in Notepad and the file
size is smaller.

Comment 1

[Ryan Pertusio]

could you expand a little more on "which" text file you downloaded?  Or, does
this happen with any text file?  Where can one find an example?
  Also, could you confirm that using another browser (if available), the text
file is correctly downloaded?

(i can't reproduce the problem with text files I have tried to download.  I'm
using win2000 on the latest build)  Maybe this problem has been fixed since
0.9.2 has been released.  I could not find a duplicate however.

Comment 2

[gavin long]

I can't reproduce either (win98SE 2001082303), but I think I have an idea what's
going on : different OS's have different ideas about what constitutes a "text
file", especially when it comes to newlines.  

DOS/Windows use and expect CR/LF pairs.  Other OS's use just LF, IIRC.

Notepad.exe is not the greatest at coping with this.  Moz is probably saving the
file as-is (and, IMO is correct to do so) and notepad is then not displaying the
file as expected because the newlines are "messed up", i.e. not windows-centric.

Reporter : can you provide a sample URL/Text file please.

Comment 3

[Francisco León]

http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/game/26506.html

Download any of those text files and they will be saved as garbage
Confirmed on linux 2001082408, regression

Catfood, this is very serious

Comment 4

[Francisco León]

Saving those 3 files with konqueror works fine
Taking a guess and moving to networking: file

Comment 5

[Francisco León]

This is not a carrier return issue, but rather saving in a wrong format.
What happens when you try to download a text file as binary? I think that could
be the problem

Comment 6

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

gz encoding problem.  

Comment 7

[Skewer]

WFM 2001090603 W98

Comment 8

[Francisco León]

http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/game/26506.html still fails on me on 
linux 2001090608 when saving the first file after viewing it

Comment 9

[Jerome Lacoste]

Is this same as 86235 ?
Jerome

Comment 10

[josh_xlii]

I have been able to confirm this problem with Build 2001112009 on Win2000. 
Saving any of the following text files using "File->Save Page As..." results in
junk.

http://db.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/file/alien_crossfire_a.txt
http://db.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/file/alpha_centauri_b.txt

Oddly enough, this text file saves fine.

http://vv8.jetc.org/8-17.txt

And this one saves with "wrong" line breaks (for notepad.exe anyway), but is
otherwise readable.

http://www.rpgamer.com/games/ff/fft/info/at_mech1.32.txt

Comment 11

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

lets move this to the right component.  

Comment 12

[Jaime Rodriguez, Jr.]

Adding nsbeta1 keyword to all regressions so they *get some love* and attention.

Comment 13

[Bill Law]

The problem seems to be that these "text" files are content-encoded using 
gzip.  If you gzip -d the files after downloading then they are fine.  This 
problem is also covered by bug 121001 (which, while newer than this one, has 
more useful info in it).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121001 ***

Comment 14

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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