137244 - File download does not work in Mozilla or Galeon; works with wget

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 105292

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Luke Hutchison]

Some links are not downloadable with the default downloader.  (I have
observed this several times.)  The links are always gettable with "wget"
for this specific problem.  I have observed this behaviour multiple times, but
it is pretty rare.

An example file: Try downloading the link
"Parker.Partial.Order.Programming.ps.Z" at the bottom of the "POP" section
on the page http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~stott/pop/ .  The actual URL of that
link is http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~stott/pop/Parker.Partial.Order.Programming.ps.Z
.  Galeon cannot get the file for some reason using its default downloader
(the downloader just silently exits, without creating a file), whereas wget
gets it fine.  According to Yanko Kaneti in Galeon bugzilla bug number 78574 (
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78574 ), this same behaviour is
visible in Mozilla with its downloader too.

Comment 1

[Frederic Bezies]

Confirming this bug. Having a 0 kb file !

Using Build 2002041203 - WinXP.

Comment 2

[Vadim Berezniker]

If you remove "compress" from Advanced -> HTTP Networking -> Accept-Encoding,
the download works fine. 
I think mozilla tries to decompress the file and fails.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Duplicate of "Mozilla is sending an Accept-encoding for deflate and compress but
doesn't support it."

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 105292 ***

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

marking verified as a duplicate.

if you decide to reopen this bug, please clarify why.

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