269896 - Attempt to download file gives invalid file (much too large).

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Michael Naber]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

In an attempt to retrieve the file ncurses-4.2.tar.gz from the site
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses (the file is 1.2 M in size), I had to
manually abort the download after I noticed the download manager was reporting a
very high transfer rate (on a 44K dial-up connection) and a size much larger
than the 1.2 M size reported by the site.  Using Internet Explorere 6.0
downloads the file correctly.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Enter the URL "http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-4.2.tar.gz"
2.Select "Save to disk"
3.

Actual Results:  
I have to abort the transfer after it far exceeds the 1.2 M size of the file.

Expected Results:  
Create a 1.2 M file ncurses-4.2.tar.gz

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

Looks like a kind of Bug 233047.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

wfm with Mozilla and win2k build 20041112

Comment 3

[Michael Naber]

After reviewing the comments on Bug 233047, it does appear that it is a 
duplicate.  I was never able to look at the resulting data, as I killed the 
transfer when it was already much too large.  However, the symptom (unmentioned 
in the original report, but since seen) of a data transfer rate several times 
greater than the connect rate (44K connection, transfer rate ~20kB-35kB) 
suggests that the browser is indeed decompressing prior to calculating the 
transfer rate and storing to disk.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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