295136 - The web page's Download button does not work.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jonathan Sachs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050520 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050520 Firefox/1.0+

This is a product description page for a shareware Java package called NewJawin.
When I click the "Download Now" button under the "NewJawin" heading, Firefox
displays a status message "Transferring data from..." but never finishes loading
the next page. In IE 6 this page loads normally.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See "Details" above.
Actual Results:  
See "Details" above.

Expected Results:  
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Comment 1

[djpohly]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050521
Firefox/1.0+

You wouldn't perhaps be UA spoofing?  This site seems to use different
JavaScript for downloading, based on the User Agent.

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050522
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005052209

WFM

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

wfm with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; de-DE; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050521

-> wfm

Comment 4

[Jonathan Sachs]

>You wouldn't perhaps be UA spoofing?

Not unless Firefox is doing so on its own initiative. I know what you mean by
that, but I haven't a clue how to do it (or why I would want to).

>This site seems to use different
>JavaScript for downloading, based on the User Agent.

Reckless coding if true, but then I'm not the driver of the car; I'm just the
person who got hit. FWIW, I searched the Web for other sources of the package
and found several, but they all had the same problem. In all of them the
"Download" button had the same appearance, although the pages themselves were
all different. I didn't look at the page source to see whether they all used the
same code behind the button.