174815 - Download fails with source file could not be read

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 171441

(Core Graveyard :: Networking: FTP, defect)

Description

[Michael S.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021015
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021015

When using a FTP or HTTP URL that point to a downloadable file, e.g.
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-win32-installer-sea.exe,
I get a popup with the error message "C:\temp\3visco9t.exe could not be saved,
because the source file could not be read.". "Save Link Target as ..." works fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on link to downloadable file or manually enter URL.

Actual Results:  
Popup with error message.

Expected Results:  
Offer to save the file

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Wfm Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021002,
perhaps some regression?!

Comment 2

[Ray Trent]

Happens to me too with 2002101508 (and a build from a few days previous which I
don't remember the id of), leaving me in the annoying position of having to use
IE to download and test Mozilla. 

It seems to happen on all .exe files, and it started happening to me at the same
time my bug 173771 started happening, so the 2 could be related. I'm wondering
if this might have something to do with how OS registrations of actions for
various MIME types are recognized by Mozilla.

Also, it looks like this might be a duplicate of bug 174485. It may also be
related to bug 173638, which I'm also experiencing (can't download files even
using right-click->SaveTargetAs). 

I'm on WinXP, so it's not completely exclusively a Win2k issue. 

Comment 3

[Michael S.]

Correction, "Save Link Target as ..." does *not* work for me. I got the "Save
as" dialog, so I assumed it works. But no file gets saved, as documented in <a
href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173638">bug 173638</a>.

Comment 4

[Ray Trent]

Seeing as how this bug silently drops downloaded files, I would consider that
loss of data, and therefore would suggest upping the severity to critical. 

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 171441 ***

Comment 6

[Ray Trent]

*** Bug 173771 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***