295244 - Download Manager failed to execute, see below

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Robert Callard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Machine:   Dell 8200; 512 ram/xp pro/latest ff build
web site:  avanguestusa.com
running through a proxy server -- intermute.com with adsubstract  

Action:   purchased software via a download; clicked download button on order to
d/l a 25 mg file.  2 seconds later, it was done.  
contacted avanquestusa and they gave me a new link.  tried that, blank screen,
w/ done.  
Disabled adsubstract and had same result.  Rebooted w/o adsubract and no proxy
server, same result.

Tried it on my other xp machine with IE and it worked flawlessly. even through
proxy server with adsubstract pro running.

Bob Callard  05/23/05


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.buy something on net
2.wait for response from vendor
3.try to download -- see website, etc above

Actual Results:  
Clicked on download, no download manager appeared 
25 mg file to d/l
2 seconds later, it was done

Expected Results:  
opened download manager and asked me where I wanted to save and downloaded file.

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Does the website you downloaded this from also provide free downloads?

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.