286889 - cannot save archives from site

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Anders Montonen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

When trying to do "Save Link As" on any of the archive files, Firefox will
suggest "foo.tar.Z.tar" as filename (accepting the suggested filename or
entering a different one does not affect the bug). When the download starts it
immediately stops and no file appears on the HD, not even an empty one.

Entering the full file URL in the address bar makes Firefox suggest the correct
filename ("foo.tar.Z"), but in the download manager the download never proceeds
beyond "Starting..."

The README file in the same directory can be downloaded without problems.

The files can be downloaded OK using other browsers (Konqueror, Lynx, IE).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open
<http://sunsite.bilkent.edu.tr/pub/languages/c++/tools/flex++bison++/LATEST/>
2. Right-click bison++-1.21-8.tar.Z, select Save Link As...
3. Click Save

Actual Results:  
The download manager flashes open and immediately closes, nothing is downloaded

Expected Results:  
The download should have finished

Reproduced in Firefox 1.01 on Windows, Fedora Core 3 (i386) and Gentoo-PPC.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

Also seing this with latest trunk build on XP

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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