276041 - drag and drop of images from secure pages produces malformed image files

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Andy hennell]

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

Using Windows XP SP2. Saving image files, from a https page, to a local location
using 'drag and drop' will sometimes result in malformed image files. 

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. EITHER goto the  page
"https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/CGI/ww3_all.cgi?color=b&type=prod&area=natl&prod=sig_wav_ht"
OR do a google _image_ search for https:+[subject] (for more general examples)
2. Drag and drop images into a local folder.
3. View folder as thumbnails or view images using software of choice. 

Actual Results:  
Some of local image files, usually the first copy, are malformed ( 0 bytes) files.
It only works sometimes. In particular larger image files seem to be more
susceptible to corruption.

Expected Results:  
EITHER:
1. Drag and drop should not be possible from secure pages.
2. Image file should not be corrupted.

I assume this is because image files loaded over https are not disk cached. This
subject is being discussed in bug#

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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