107412 - Can't download large files because it fills the /tmp partition

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 55690

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Bill Moran]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.4-RC i386)
BuildID:    0000000000

It appears that Mozilla downloads files to a temp directory and then
copies them to their final resting place.  There may be a design
decision for this behaviour, but it causes problems sometimes. For
example, my /tmp is part of my /var partition, which is only 100M
If I try to download one of the iso images for Mandrake from Mozilla,
the download fails because /var/tmp is filled before it can complete
because the iso is ~650M.  The target partition chosen to download
the file to has plenty of space for it.  Mozilla does not provide
any intelligable error message and I was only able to discern what
was wrong by watching a console complain that "write failed,
filesystem full"
I have been unable to find a configure option to change the tmp
location.  If there is a good reason to download to a temp area first,
it's location should probably be configurable, and a helpful error
message should display when the problem occurs.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make sure your temp directory partition is smaller than the file you want to
download.
2. Make sure the target directory is large enough to hold the download.
3. Attempt to download the file.

Actual Results:  The console began complaining about writes failing, and df
showed the
/var partition as full. Mozilla reported no errors and appeared to
continue the download. When I canceled the download, the /var parition
was properly cleaned up.

Expected Results:  A) Mozilla would download the file directly to the specified
location
B) Mozilla would report an error when it ran out of temp space, something like
"temp space full, please use a larger temp directory
and try again"

Mozilla appeared to continue the download even after it had filled the
available space, I didn't wait to see what would have happened if I had let it
finish so an error message may appear eventually.
However, this error should appear as soon as the space is exhausted, otherwise,
time and bandwidth are wasted.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55690 ***

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away 07/21 - 08/08)]

verified.