196038 - fails downloading files bigger than free space on disk cache

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 69938

(Core :: Networking: Cache, defect)

Description

[Tikras Vardas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

When downloading big files (say 1 GB) from http and saving them to network
drive, download manager saves them in diks cache only. When disk containig cache
becomes full, download fails. There is enough free space on the destination
drive. The free space on the disk containig cache is bigger than the maximum
cache size setting. To avoid this bug, download process should save big files
directly on the destination disk.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Place browser cache on drive with limited space.
2. Download file from http bigger than the free space on the disk containing
cache saving it to other disk containig enough free space.
3. Wait for the download fail.

Actual Results:  
Download failed

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have saved the file directly to the destination disk and downloaded  
file successfully 

cache size setting - 50000 KB
free space on the drive C containig cache - 300 MB
download size - 600 MB
free space on the destination drive - 17 GB

Comment 1

[Patrick]

i think IE has the same behavior

[left-click] a link and the file starts downloading to the system drive.
Meanwhile a save-as dialog appears and after download the file is moved to the
chosen location.

If you RIGHT-click a link and choose "Save target as" the d/l won't start just
yet, but you first choose the location and the file is loaded directly to the
specified location.

Try that, if that works as inteneded this one is "invalid"

Comment 2

[Patrick]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69938 ***

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

verified.