Closed Bug 9897 Opened 25 years ago Closed 23 years ago

NECKO: Download TGZ file: No selection dialog appears, loaded as ASCII data

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect, P2)

x86
Windows 98

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED WORKSFORME
Future

People

(Reporter: Crysgem, Assigned: mscott)

References

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Details

(Whiteboard: [nsbeta2-])

Apprunner Build ID: 1999070614 (The build was downloaded from today's new 1999-07-14-08-M8 directory... yet the date of the application is labeled as above. Who may parse?) Unlike the arrogant, superior Enforcer 5.0, the beast does not generate a file "Save As..." dialog upon click-selecting "cookiecutter-0.1.1.tgz" (an HTTP, NOT a FTP, link), and proceeds to straightwise process the file as ASCII data, loading a new page with said ASCII bytes.
Assignee: mcmullen → brendan
QA Contact: mcmullen → leger
mcmullen@netscape.com (requiescat in pace) is named as the XP File Handling master... by Allah, this should be made right.
Assignee: brendan → don
I agree, but you should reassign mcmullen bugs to don@netscape.com, who manages the group to which John belonged. Did some who2bug page mislead you to give this to me? /be
Assignee: don → law
Component: XP File Handling → XPApps
Priority: P3 → P2
Target Milestone: M10
Bill, who should get this bug?
Assignee: law → gagan
Component: XPApps → Networking Library
This bug might should be re-assigned to the webmaster at www.qis.net :-). It appears that this URL has mime type text/plain, so the browser is naively accepting that. I believe that other browsers might presume they know more and intuit that URLs with "extensions" like ".tgz" might really be something else. If one adhered to that philosophy, then it's a matter for the netlib code, I suspect. I'm reassigning to that component.
Changing all Networking Library/Browser bugs to Networking-Core component for Browser. Occasionally, Bugzilla will burp and cause Verified bugs to reopen when I do this in a bulk change. If this happens, I will fix. ;-)
Assignee: gagan → valeski
Summary: Download TGZ file: No selection dialog appears, loaded as ASCII data → NECKO: Download TGZ file: No selection dialog appears, loaded as ASCII data
May have dependency on the MIME table (Jud?) Please check with Necko.
Assignee: valeski → gagan
Component: Networking-Core → OJI
if the MIME-table can't find a content type (currently it won't becase TGZ isn't regsitered) for a file extension, the app needs to decide what to do (this is based on context); such as throw a save as dialog.
Assignee: gagan → don
Back to you don...
*** Bug 11120 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
<added myself to the cc: list so that I can be reminded to check the mail case specified in bug 11120 when this bug gets marked fixed.>
QA Contact: leger → paw
Resetting QA Contact
Assignee: don → gagan
Component: OJI → Necko
It looks like this bug was mistakenly assigned to the OJI area. I don't see any mention of OJI or Java in the bug history, so I'm making my best guess and re-assigning to the Necko area, which *is* mentioned in the bug report.
Assignee: gagan → don
Assignee: don → radha
Target Milestone: M10 → M12
Radha, we'll need to fix this when the URL dispatching/MIME handling stuff is ready.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Depends on: 14928
Target Milestone: M12 → M13
Bulk move of all Necko (to be deleted component) bugs to new Networking component.
Target Milestone: M13 → M15
Not a dogfood requirement
QA Contact: paw → shrir
setting shrir as qa contact I actually don't know what the behavior should be, i.e. what takes precedence, mime-type or extension. This URL doesn't exist anymore, however.
Target Milestone: M15 → M16
Keywords: nsbeta2
This has to do with the uriloader. Don't see a component for that. Passing to mscott for further evaluation.
Assignee: radha → mscott
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Putting on [nsbeta2-] radar for beta2 fix. Seems like a weird edgecase.
Whiteboard: [nsbeta2-]
Target Milestone: M16 → M18
Not nominated for beta2 so pushing out.
Not a beta3 bug. helper app (w/ save as dialog) is working for the basic cases now. Also, the URL is now invalid.....
Target Milestone: M18 → Future
Is this still a problem? I am able to download .tgz files without any problems in current builds.
Four months without any comments... I haven't had any trouble downloading .tgz files either, and the URL mentioned in the bug is a 404. Mark as WORKSFORME?
test url is dead..but yeah I can download tgz file with no problm. WfM
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Component: Networking → File Handling
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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