233435 - Downloads are broken

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 55690

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[colin bruce]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030915

It is difficult to believe that anyone could be so stupid as to write code that
downloads to /tmp and then copies the file. /tmp is traditionally mounted on a
partition with small amounts of disk space so only small downloads are possible.
If a download succeeds there is then the additional work to copy the temporary
file to where it should have been in the first place. Furthermore, if for
whatever reason this copy fails (and it just did for me for no apparent reason)
the temporary file is deleted and all that time waiting for the download is
wasted. This is plain ****!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. download a file
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
The download is lost

Expected Results:  
It should do the obvious, simple, straightforward, easy, sensible thing and
download the file to the specified destination.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> It should do the obvious, simple, straightforward, easy, sensible thing

You, sir, have no idea what you are talking about.  Please do yourself a favor
and educate yourself.

I suggest you start with researching the concept of connection timeouts,
followed by the concept of taking time to select a download location.

Also, next time please do test with something like a recent build; you never
know when problems will get fixed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55690 ***