186491 - pausing and then resuming download produces a corrupted downloaded file

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 237623

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Don Nguyen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021203
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021203

This isn't really a download manager specific problem, but it has to do with
downloading in general, so I thought this is the best place for this to go. 
This bug appears in Mozilla 1.2.1 and I have seen this problem with the Linux
build and Windows build.  When I download a file, and then pause it and later
resume it, something weird happens.  The amount downloaded appears to just skip.
 For example when I pause it when I have 500Kbytes of the file downloaded, and
later on I click resume, it would jumped to 1000Kbytes immediately.  I am on a
56K modem so I know it's not possible to get 500Kbytes in a second after
resumming, unless there is some downloading activity going on in the background
while the download is paused, which I don't think is the case.  This all fine
and dandy, I really don't care what the progress indicator says, but my problem
is, after it says the file is complete, I end up with a corrupted file.  This
seems to happen to every file that I have downloaded using the pause and resume
feature.  If you are unable to reproduce this bug, please let me know and I will
provide some more specific details on what I have tried.  Thanks.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  download a file
2.  pause the download sometime during it's progress
3.  resume the download ... I will get a status of complete and end up with a
corrupted file
Actual Results:  
The file is corrupted.  If I download the same file without using pause/resume,
it works fine.

Comment 1

[Daniel Wang]

*** Bug 211269 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

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

dup of bug 87151 I think

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Dependent, at least.

Comment 4

[Charles Fenwick]

*** Bug 226571 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87151 ***