257975 - File upload (during form submission) progress meter no longer working properly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 249338

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[phil]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040820 Debian/1.7.2-4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707

Bug 24197 was an RFE for showing the progress of uploaded files; the bar in
the lower right of the browser window grows to full size as upload nears
completion (the browser knows how much data there is to send, after all).

This stopped working sometime between 1.5 and 1.7.1.  Now, the bar is immediately
filled out to its max size, and remains there while the file is uploaded.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Find a bog-standard form with file uploading.  The ones I use for my job use
the POST method, but that shouldn't matter (the file size is still known).
2. Submit the form.

Actual Results:  
3. Watch the progress bar on the bottom do nothing.


Expected Results:  
A steady progression from left to right.  :-)

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

> The ones I use for my job use
> the POST method, but that shouldn't matter (the file size is still known).

yeah well, you can't use GET for file uploads...

Are you seeing this on both windows and linux?

Comment 2

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 249338 ***