175886 - Fails to download file, stating source cannot be read, when the file is verified present/available

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 171441

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[John Dahl]

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

One example is the file at http://www.snaggs.com/projector/nec/XGDisk1.zip ,
which failed to download under Mozilla, but was downloadable using netscape 4.77
and IE5.5.  Error indicated the file "could not be saved, because the source
file could not be read."

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.see above
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Actual Results:  
Error message from details section is displayed

Expected Results:  
Downloaded the file, perhaps using download manager...

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

search before a bug . this one is VERY easy to find

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

Comment 2

[John Dahl]

Hey, sorry about the duplicate.  I did a search, but apparently chose the wrong
search terms as I didn't see 171441.  It appears I'm not the first to have
missed it...