235568 - download manager does NOT resume/restart partial downloads!?!?!

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 18004

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Bob Goldberg]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

B4 anything else - yes, this has been reported before, but I didn't see any
recent posts.

This bug has been reported going back to 1999!! and still it doesn't seem to be
resolved.

download manager basically - doesn't work. (period).

this statement ASSUMES that the purpose of DM is to resume partial downloads. If
this is NOT DM's purpose, then I don't know what it IS supposed to do.

Whenever a download is interupted, DM does NOT "restart" where it left off. It
simply says it "failed", and when I manually click on the link to start over
again - I am forced to OVERWRITE the partial download, and start all over again!!

furthermore - SOMETIMES, DM doesn't even say it "failed". sometimes, it actually
says "FINISHED" when only 10% (or less) has actually been rcv'd!!!!!

So - my questions:
A) IS DM supposed to restart partial downloads?
B) assuming "A" is yes; why hasn't this problem been addressed in the many
revisions since 1999's report of the problem. (there have been many bug reports
thru 2002).

Finally, please don't interperet this as a flame - I wasn't asked to pay for
this product, and IMHO - the whole mozilla suite kicks IE's butt 7 ways from
Sunday. I just want to know if I should "disconnect [uninstall]" the download
manager applet, and use something else...

tia

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. start a download
2. disconnect the inet connection
3. see if download resumes when reconnected
Actual Results:  
as many times as I've tried this (downloading openoffice); the download does not
resume.

Expected Results:  
download manager SHOULD restart & resume the download until properly finished

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> B4 anything else - yes, this has been reported before, but I didn't see any
> recent posts.

So?  It's been reported.  Why would it need to be reported again?

> If this is NOT DM's purpose, then I don't know what it IS supposed to do.

As far as I can tell, it was designed to make it easy to track all in-progress
downloads and to make it easy to refer to all past completed downloads. 
Resuming downloads was not part of the original design criteria, as far as I
know.  Insofar as there were criteria.  ;)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18004 ***