236189 - Downloading corrupts the file and the MD5 checksum is not correct

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 236045

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[gooz]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

Downloading a fix for a firewall from
http://smoothwall.org/get/download/patches/2.0-fixes2.html gives a corrupted
file. The MD5 checksum is not correct and filecompare (fc /b) shows differences.

When I download the same file with Mozilla or MS-IE the file is downloaded
correctly.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download file
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Corrupted downloaded file

Expected Results:  
Correct download

Comment 1

[gooz]

It seems to be the specific file at the URL:
http://download.smoothwall.org/archive/updates/2.0/2.0-fixes2.tar.gz

The correct size is 2,132,235 bytes (Downloaded with M$ IE and a correct MD5
checksum)

The downloaded file has 2,150,400 bytes

Comment 2

[Ali Ebrahim]

I tried to reproduce this on Windows and Linux using Firefox 0.8, and on both
platforms the downloaded file was the correct size in bytes, and had the correct
MD5 checksum on both platforms.

Can anyone else reproduce this? Maybe it's a Win9x bug, as I was only able to
test on Windows XP. It's also possible that the reporter has some weird
transparent caching proxies that could be screwing things up.

Reporter, can you try this download again with a clean profile, and making sure
that you installed Firefox 0.8 into a clean directory.

Comment 3

[Ali Ebrahim]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 236045 ***