266849 - download manager fails to check write permissions.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Ross Cannizzaro]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1

Download path can bet set to a non-writable directory or drive. When downloading
completes, no file is generated/saved in the location and all data is lost.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
Generated an error message dialog box before attempting to download the file.

Comment 1

[Pavel Penaz]

WFM. I tried to download a file into a directory with write permissions set to
Deny. Firefox notified me that I do not have the sufficient privileges and asked
me whether I want to download the file to "My Documents" directory instead. 

Comment 2

[Ali Ebrahim]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041029
Firefox/1.0RC1

WFM too. I also get the dialog saying that I don't have write permissions, and
do I want to save to My Documents instead. I set write permissions to deny to test.

Maybe it has to do with your specific allow/deny settings on a folder. Can you
explicity state what your permissons are for that folder so I can try to reproduce?

Comment 3

[Ross Cannizzaro]

The default download directory on my machine is desktop, located under
c:\documents and settings\[username]\desktop. I have the permissions set
on this to deny for both "Create Files / Write Data" and "Create Folders/Append
Data". This is only set for the current user, who is under the users group. Note
that I never changed the default directory after installation.

(In reply to comment #2)
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041029
> Firefox/1.0RC1
> 
> WFM too. I also get the dialog saying that I don't have write permissions, and
> do I want to save to My Documents instead. I set write permissions to deny to
test.
> 
> Maybe it has to do with your specific allow/deny settings on a folder. Can you
> explicity state what your permissons are for that folder so I can try to
reproduce?

Comment 4

[Steven Higginbotham]

Yes, the same thing happens when using firefox under GNU/Linux, specifically
fedora core 3.  

When I try to save a link into a directory that does not have write permissions,
it doesn't tell me that there's anything wrong, and it just downloads the link
(without writing it to the directory of course).  I think it should at least let
you know that you don't have write permissions for the destination directory,
and then abandon the save.

Comment 5

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050911
Firefox/1.0.6 (Debian package 1.0.6-5) and a current trunk build.

Comment 6

[Aaron Slunt]

*** Bug 304158 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Stephanie Daugherty [:sdaugherty]]

WFM, I get an error that the folder/file can't be written to.