175291 - Download: ... source file could not be reached ...

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 171441

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Timothy C. Quinn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

While downloading the file:
http://themes.freshmeat.net/redir/orbit3/30882/url_tgz/orbit3-default-0.0.6.3.5.tar.gz
I get the following error:
c:\docume~.....\LOCALS~1\TEMP\mt6u2igq.tar could not be saved, because the
source file could not be read.

Try again later, ...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Goto location:
http://themes.freshmeat.net/redir/orbit3/30882/url_tgz/orbit3-default-0.0.6.3.5.tar.gz

Actual Results:  
Got error.

Expected Results:  
Download prompt.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

WFM, dupe of bug 171441, please reopen if not correct.

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

Comment 2

[Andreas Kunz]

According to the description the duping seems correct.
But my Mozilla (2002101708 on Win2k) behaves differently:

Downloading ("save as file") works here, the file seems to be ok.
However, downloading with opening directly ("open with winzip") does not work:
"Error after processing 0 Entries"
The problem is that the save-as-file download is named .tar.gz - while the temp
file created when you do open-with-winzip is named .tar.gz.tar!!
But that seems to be caused by the mime-type [application/x-tar] sent by the
server. WinZip is not smart enough to recognize the file as a gzip file - and
mozilla just believes what it is told by the server...

But what the reporter described seems really to be bug 171441.