Safari Adds Extra ".html" to Downloaded Files

I set up a tab to get the file at

http://www.setterberglaw.com/uploads/page2/page2.html

Yes, that's my point. The link I provided was exactly what resulted when I downloaded the jpg from my web server using Safari. On the server it appeared as "Picture.jpg." When I downloaded it to my desktop, it was in the form "Picture.jpg.html." Safari added the "html" during the download process. No other browser I have access to does this. I've since added a picture of what the server page and desktop looks like on the page represented by the link above.

For what it's worth, the iPower guys say it's a Safari issue, not theirs.

Message was edited by: Richard Setterberg

I've since also added the orginal jpg file that made the round trip.

You're right; I probably have missed your point and wasn't very clear. I attached the downloaded file to show you what I got, not what I started with.

Let me try again.

I set up an upload page on my website. I am using RapidWeaver and a plugin called RapidUpload. The upload page appears in the link I sent.

To test how it works, I sent my site a file using the upload page.

I then went to the iPower web server site to get the file I sent. I go to place where the uploads are kept, and it has the file. In my Safari browser window, the file appears as "Max3.jpg." A screen shot of another photo showing what the iPower file manager page looks like is at the site link.

There is a downward arrow on the iPower site to the right of the file. This is the download icon. When I click on that icon, it downloads the file to my desktop. However, in the process of doing this, it adds an unnecessary and unwanted ".html" to the downloaded file name. The resulting file on the desktop also appears on the screen shot I provided.

I want to know what I can do to Safari to stop it from doing this. I say "do to Safari" because if I use Firefox or Explorer to download the file to the desktop, this extraneous ".html" does not get added.

Thanks for your continuing efforts to help, but no luck.

After fussing for quite a bit, only thing I can get out of the download icon is the chance to copy the gif, not the underlying file. Option clicking yields the choices on the second screen shot I posted.

It looks to me like you're right. The terminal text reads:

Last login: Thu May 28 19:09:23 on ttys000
Divemaster-2:~ user$ curl -I http://www.ipower.com/controlpanel/FileManager/m.cmp?cmd=dlfile&p=public_html%2F RapidUpload%2FMax1.jpg
[1] 13901
Divemaster-2:~ user$ HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 23:13:00 GMT
Server: Apache
Set-Cookie: request_uri=http://www.ipower.com/controlpanel/FileManager/m.cmp%3fcmd%3ddlfile ; domain=ipower.com; path=/
Location: https://secure.ipower.com/secure/login.bml?err=
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1





I guess I'll have to go back to iPower and see what they say. There is no question that the content type shows as "text/html".

I'll report back. Thanks for all your efforts.

Message was edited by: Richard Setterberg

As I kind of expected, the support person at iPower continues to claim it's Safari's problem:

"I have checked the URL http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9532567&#9532567 and was able to duplicate the issue. The MIME types of already there on our server. Since the issue is with your Safari browser, I suggest that you contact Apple to resolve your issue."

I wish I didn't have another reason to use Firefox--for this purpose at least -- but that's where I think I am.

Thanks everyone for your help.