Bug 19761 - Downloading a .dmg served as application/octet-stream using Safari results in .bz2 file
Summary: Downloading a .dmg served as application/octet-stream using Safari results in...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Evangelism (show other bugs)
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware: Mac OS X 10.5
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
URL: http://www.virtualbox.org/
Keywords: InRadar
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2008-06-24 23:24 PDT by Philippe Wittenbergh
Modified: 2008-06-25 02:27 PDT (History)
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Description Philippe Wittenbergh 2008-06-24 23:24:46 PDT
Downloading a bzip2-encoded dmg -served as application/octet-stream using Safari/Webkit results in a .bz2 file that cannot be opened correctly. Removing -in the Finder- the .bz2 extension (leaving one with a .dmg extension) allows the user to proceed.

STR
1. Go to mentioned site
2. download
3. go over to the Finder attempt to open the downloaded .dmg
4. Weep

See also: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408233
Comment 1 Philippe Wittenbergh 2008-06-24 23:26:18 PDT
Also filed as Bug ID# 6032836 with bugreport.apple.com
Comment 2 Alexey Proskuryakov 2008-06-25 02:27:51 PDT
This is not a WebKit issue, so I'm closing it as INVALID per our process. This will continue to be tracked internally by Apple as <rdar://6032836>, thank you for reporting it!