109069 - no error message if download fails due to permissions

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 27609

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Alex Chaffee]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011012
BuildID:    2001101201

When you click on a link to a file that will be downloaded instead of  displayed
in the  browser (e.g. a link to an RPM), and you try to save it to a directory
you don't have permission to write to, it will appear to succeed, but actually
fail. 

Silent failure on download is a critical error (critical = "causes you to lose
data")


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
* Click on a link to a file that will not be displayed in the browser (e.g. a
link to an RPM)
* See "Downloading foo.rpm" dialog box ("Save this file to Disk"
selected)
* click "OK"
* "Enter name of file to save to..." file dialog 
* Browse to a directory that is visible, but not writeable
(e.g. permissions drwxrwxr-x where user is not in group and is not
owner)
* Click "Save" 
* File dialog disappears
* See "Saving file" dialog
* "Progress" bar advances, completes to 100%, everything looks good
* but the file has not been saved!



Actual Results:  File not saved

Expected Results:  Display appropriate detailed error message, e.g. "The file
could not be saved because user alex does not have permission to write to
directory /home/alex/bad"


Similar to <a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30784">30784</a>
(but not identical)

Note that it looks like you did fix this for the "Save as..." case, but not the
instant-download case

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 27609 ***

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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