142669 - downloading redhat iso images from redhat.com through https

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 91795

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Yan-Fa Li]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417
BuildID:    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417

when using the redhat network you have the ability to download
ISO images while using https.  There is an unfortunate problem
with the https download client's behavior.  It caches the entire file
in memory while doing the download.  In the case of an ISO this can
be 700MBs.  This is just wrong and causes the host to crash or slow
down until the file is complete.  The system should start flushing
the file to disk sooner than this, perhaps every 10 to 20MBs.  Not
caching it to memory for ever.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.connect to redhat network
2.select download ISO images
3.download the ISO images and watch the memory consumption grow!!  Works on
Windows 2000 and Linux

Actual Results:  System memory consumption starts to grow at pace of file.

Expected Results:  flushed file to disk, just as in a regular ftp download, in
chunks.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 91795 ***