270519 - Repeated downloading does not check if file has changed but uses cached one.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 138117

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[PaulL]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When downloading files AGAIN, the browser does not check if the file has
changed and simply gives you the one stored in cache (or wherever) on disk.
Real pain when you give somebody a file to download periodically
from your website (eg. http://www.mywebsite.com/somefile.zip)
and you change the contents of the same name file. The browser
simply gives them the one they got before.
This is a problem with other browsers too.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. store a file on your website - eg somefile.zip
2. download it
3. change the contents of the file and upload it again to website
4. download it and see that it is the same as the original without changes
and of course it really downloads fast since it really does not download.

Actual Results:  
Same problem

Expected Results:  
Downloaded the latest file on the website and not simply give you what
is stored (in cache?) on the disk.

Solution: give (default) option for downloading it fresh everytime.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> 4. download it 

How?  What exact steps?

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[John Vandenberg]

Problem confirmed on FF1.5b1 and SeaMonkey1.0a.

The proposed solution is to remove completed downloads from the cache.  pls vote
for/add comments on bug 138117 if you feel strongly that the download should be
retained, and that a UI to download vs use cached version be added into that
design somehow.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138117 ***