263449 - downloads stall sometimes

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 296062

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[david nicol]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

downloads in firefox DM stall, so I have taken to preferring to start a
cygwin bash and do

   wget -c -nd -np URL-GOES-HERE

when I want to download something large, like an iso image.  With the -c
option, wget will restart an incomplete download, too.

bug 58744, when the patch is in, might give me a way to just punt downloading
to wget.  Although the restarting semantics would be troublesome to generalize.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to download the "microsoft services for unix" iso image from behind
a linksys wireless NAT connected to a cable modem.

Actual Results:  
the stream starts pretty whippy but then gets slower, then stops.

Expected Results:  
DM should speed up again

  wget slows down
too, but then it speeds back up, which firefox download mgr does not.  I don't
know if pasting an URL after an esoteric invocation of wget qualifies as
an "easy workaround."

Comment 1

[Nityan]

this problem has also happened to me many times.
Again:
Reproduceable:sometimes.
Steps:
1. Go to http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ and uncheck the boxes for e-mail
letters.
2. click on the download itunes button.
Results:
1. Sometimes it starts downloading fast, then it just stops. (this has hapened
other times with larger files)
2. other times the download manager opens and it says starting, but that is all
it does, it never starts downloading.

I am using windows XP, and firefox 1.0.7.

Comment 2

[soloturn]

could it be it is a duplicate of bug 296092?

Comment 3

[david nicol]

(In reply to comment #2)
> could it be it is a duplicate of bug 296092?
> 

well it could, yeah;  if there was a downloader-health thread
that periodically made downloading threads take stock of
what they were up to and try to wake themselves up if they're
stuck that might fix both, if they are in fact the same problem.
(i don't know.)