Bug 18069 – WebKit adds different file extensions to downloaded files

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: INVALID
• Component: New Bugs

[Steven Hollingsworth]

I have downloaded several different Office documents off of different websites and WebKit appends a strange filetype extension to them. For example, WebKit adds .pot to filename.ppt, .xla to filename.xls, and filename.dot to .doc. I have been able to reproduce this issue on several websites with several different Excel, PowerPoint, and Word files.

[Steven Hollingsworth]

Here is a link to a post on the MacRumors forum from some other Safar/WebKit users who have been experiencing the same problem http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=445758.

It seems to occur after the installation of Office 2008, however other browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Camino, and Opera are not affected by this issue.  

[Chris Fleischl]

It does not change the extension, it adds it.  So file.doc becomes file.doc.dot and file.xls becomes file.xls.xla.  Flash video files file.flv becomes file.flv.dms.

[Robert Blaut]

In my opinion the issue belongs to Safari browser, not to Webkit engine. So it should be reported to http://bugreport.apple.com The issue is of cause visible only on Mac platform.

[Steven Hollingsworth]

I have submitted a bug report on Apple's Bug Reporter. The problem ID is 5827353.

(In reply to comment #3)
> In my opinion the issue belongs to Safari browser, not to Webkit engine. So it
> should be reported to http://bugreport.apple.com The issue is of cause visible
> only on Mac platform.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Thank you for filing this bug! As it is indeed not a WebKit issue, I'm closing this Bugzilla report as INVALID; it will continue to be tracked in Radar.