Closed Bug 75655 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

FTP vs. HTTP Downloading

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
Installer
Platform:
x86
Windows 98
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED
Milestone:
mozilla0.9.2

People

(Reporter: loeb, Assigned: ssu0262)

Details

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; 0.8.1) Netscape6/6.5b0
BuildID:    2001040304

Right now we allow the user to make a choice about whether they would like to
download via FTP protocol, or via http protocol. We give users this choice
because it is sometimes easier to download via http when behind a firewall. 

This decision should not be left to the user, but instead we should default to
FTP downloading, with an automatic failover to http if FTP is not successful
after two tries.  This will clean up the user experience, and remove a step in
the download/install process.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run stub app
2. Begin download/install process
3. Navigate to Download Options window
nominating and confirming so we remember to triage this
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Keywords: nsbeta1
internal netscape6 bug...
QA Contact: gemal → gbush
per our discussion, the Use FTP/Use HTTP radio buttons have been moved to the 
Advanced dialog.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Cool, can you attach a patch for review? Or has this been checked in already?
Keywords: nsbeta1 → nsbeta1+
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla0.9.2
actually, the patch for this fix is part of the patch for bug 77981, which will 
be checked in today.
fixed.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
verified on build 2001051104
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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