172429 - Can't save ebay auction

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Environment:
- Mozilla 1.0.1
- Linux
- Disk Cache 0KB, Mem Cache 4MB, Squid Proxy.

Reproduction:
1. Go to URL.
2. Try to save the HTMl file, via File|Save Page As... or contextmenu|Save Page
As...

Actual result:
1. Nothing
2. After a long time (1-2 minutes?), I got some dialog telling me something that
I forgot.

Expected result:
Anything displayed can be saved.

Additional Comments:
Similar to bug 166786 in effects, but not symptoms.

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

seeing as well, win98, 2002100108, mem cache 4 MB, disk cache 50000 KB
(interesting number btw. why not 50 MB?), no proxy.

hm, haven't waited long enough yet to get such a dialog.

Comment 2

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

haha, now I get another one of these dialogs. That must be 15 minutes after my
action.  The text says: "The link could not be saved. The web page might have
been removed or had its name changed."

This dialog must never appear (from our UI). I can only trigger Save for pages
that are displayed and I must be able to save everything that is displayed.

Comment 3

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Can't View Source either.

Comment 4

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Can't View Source either. Just got another one of these dialogs, now 30 minutes
after my action (I triggered Save repeatedly, of course).

Comment 5

[gordon]

The design of File/Save as... depends on the cache.  With only a 4Mb memory
cache, things will get evicted pretty quickly, and may not be available for saving.

The cache and HTTP have a mechanism designed to allow "pinning" items in the
cache so they don't get evicted until the current page is done with them, but it
will require clients of HTTP to support it.  See bug 72519.

Changing component to File Handling.

Comment 6

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

> With only a 4Mb memory cache, things will get evicted pretty quickly

True, but in this case, I loaded that page just before, it's only 100K, so it
should be in the cache.
True, you should pin things, so that I can still save the page after browsing 2
hours in another window.

Comment 7

[Travis Chase]

this works for me