173726 - Can no longer download PDF files

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 162271

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Alan Lindsey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021007

Not sure this actually gets as far as the download manager, but anyway ...
After upgrading to 1.2b, attempts to view/download .pdf files produce an error
message box.
In Google, if the file has just been viewed as HTML, Mozilla crashes.
IE5 handles the identical locations correctly (even invoking Star Downloader to
do the job!)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Left or right click on url of PDF.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
"xxxx.pdf could not be saved, because the source file could not be read. Try
again later, or contact the server administrator."

Expected Results:  
Downloaded or attempted to display file.

Sorry, I didn't note the Talkback ID, but I did send one dataset the first time
it occcurred.

Comment 1

[Ere Maijala (slow)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 162271 ***

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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Comment 3

[Joe Bosch]

Related problem: occasionally, when attempting to view a pdf file via a link,
browser seems to "hang"; hour glass pointer is present, but task manager shows
no acitivity, cpu usage shows vitually no usage except for those
processes/programs that were running prior to the attempted download.  Download
Manager NEVER opens when downloading a pdf file.