265126 - downloader not actually downloading zero size file

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Downloads Panel, defect)

Description

[Dave Schmidt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

Minor issue; found this while trying to characterize a different download issue.
 When right clicking on the file "ietf-60" which (at least right now) has 0
bytes, the downloader goes thru the usual prompting of where to save the file, etc.

However, when the downloader says completed, the file doesn't exist.  I would
expect there be a 0 bytes file in the destination folder, yet there is none.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to ftp://ftp.is.co.za/rfc/
2. right click on zero size file "ietf-60", and choose save link as...
3. pick a dest folder, etc.
4. once complete, check dest folder to see if file is there.

Actual Results:  
The file was not there.

Expected Results:  
Created a zero size file

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

Same with Mozilla 1.8a5 on WinNT4.

Comment 2

[Ali Ebrahim]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Same with Mozilla 1.8a5 on WinNT4.

Moving to Browser.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This could well be a webbrowserpersist issue...

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Dave Schmidt]

Got the automated comment, so I went back to retest with Firefox 1.0.7.

The problem still exists.  This time, I put a zero size .txt file on my personal
webpage, navigated to it, selected Save Link As..., the download window came up,
and it quickly said "Done".

I verified that the file did not exist where I saved it.  I also selected "Open"
from the download window, and it said:

"zerosize.txt does not exist.  It may have been renamed, moved, or deleted since
it was downloaded."

Comment 6

[Darin Fisher]

Dave: Can you please test with Firefox 1.5 beta 1?  Firefox 1.0.7 is based on a
branch of the Mozilla source code that is over a year old :)

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/

Comment 7

[Dave Schmidt]

As requested, I downloaded and installed Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 and retested.

The problem still exists.  The steps to reproduce the issue are the same as with
Firefox 1.0.7 and the behavior is the same.

Comment 8

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

mass reassigning to nobody.

Comment 9

[Faraaz Ahmad]

Does this problem still exist?

Comment 10

[Siddharth Maurya [:savvysiddharth]]

Tried downloading a zero sized file and it is working
Resolving fixed.