263746 - Unable to download file

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 227439

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[carljordan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041002
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041002

I am unable to download the FlyingBird zipped file.  This is my instructor's
site, and I know it can be downloaded, because I have down so before.  (BTW,
don't try the chapters, because you need a password to open them.)  I can
download it with that other browser (IE), but not with Mozilla.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Not much I can try, except the other browser to see if it is my computer or
firewall.  But it isn't, since IE lets me download it.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Nothing.  I right click on it, save target as, and then nothing.  The download
manager does not open.  In fact, when I go to Tools|Download Manager, it does
not open then either.

Expected Results:  
I should be able to download it, as I have in the past.

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

does tools|web development|javascript console show any errors?

Comment 2

[Ben Fowler]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041010
Firefox/0.9.1+

WFM, with messages like this one:

spec=/BirdFlying.zip
WARNING: malformed url: no scheme, file
../../../../src/netwerk/base/src/nsStandardURL.cpp, line 741

I don't see that "<a href="Support/BirdFlying.zip">FlyingBird</a>" should
cause problems ...

there are a large number of mso errors in the Javascript console,
but that is all.

Comment 3

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Most likely a dup of bug 227439 -- try deleting compreg.dat, or typing
about:plugins into the URL bar and hitting enter.

Comment 4

[carljordan]

Thank you.  

There are lots of errors in tools|developer|console, from all kinds of sites,
such as yahoo.com and hotmail.  And my instructor's page is on the list many
times.  Besides mso errors, there are CURSER and font errors, just to mention a
couple, from other sites.  But for his, they appear to only be mso errors.  One
thing I just did to be aware of them when they occursis to add
"user_pref("javascript.console.open_on_error", true);" to my prefs.js file, as
it suggests on  http://www.its.mnscu.edu/webmaster/jsconsole.html (found it with
yahoo search, which probably caused another javascript console error).  

I deleted compreg.dat, as suggested, and that seems to have done the trick.  I
see that it has rebuilt itself when I reopened the browser.  I had no problem
downloading the file from his site.

When I type in about: plugins, I just get a long page of plugins, but nothing
about javascript console.  But since it is fine no, why mess with success. 
Thanks again.

Is it safe to delete the errors in the javascript console now?

TIA.

Comment 5

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

ok, thanks. the reason I asked is because I watned to know if one of those
errors referred to nsIDownload.init

anyway, if deleting compreg.dat fixes it, this is a duplicate of bug 227439 as I
expected

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 227439 ***