Closed Bug 1337138 Opened 8 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Firefox downloads file again even though it is already saved

Categories

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Downloads API
Version:
51 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: moz, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/51.0 Build ID: 20170126153103 Steps to reproduce: 1. open any website with large downloads, e.g. open a video in any subfolder of https://ftp.fau.de/fosdem/ 2. click video to play it 3. wait until it is fully cached 4. open context menu (right-click) and choose to download video 5. watch about:downloads Actual results: File is downloaded again, even if it is cached. Also, the file does not show up in about:cache Expected results: Do not download the video again. Save bandwith instead, and also save the user some time.
Component: Untriaged → Downloads API
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
Component: Downloads API → Networking
Product: Toolkit → Core
the http cache does not manage huge objects of this type - they would obliterate the cache for any other content (and most would exceed the quota).
Component: Networking → Downloads API
Product: Core → Toolkit
Summary: Firefox downloads file again even though it is cached → Firefox downloads file again even though it is already saved
(In reply to Patrick McManus [:mcmanus] from comment #1) > the http cache does not manage huge objects of this type - they would > obliterate the cache for any other content (and most would exceed the quota). This means we have to download the data again from the network, because it is not actually cached for this reason. Thanks!
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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