307841 - hangs half way on downloading Word files

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[rfmundkowsky]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

Hi,

Mozilla and Firefox hang on downloading Word documents from this site:

http://sunset.usc.edu/classes/cs510_2004/notes/usc-cse-2001-501.doc

But it downloads PDF documents from the same site correctly:

http://sunset.usc.edu/classes/cs510_2004/notes/agile_people_factor.pdf

I am behind a Linksys router/firewall/DSL router.  From work I don't have this
download problem.  I have never had this download with any other files all over
the internet.

IE also had the same problem until I changed a setting: via Tools, Internet
Options, Connections, Lan Settings, Automatically Detect Settings to checked. 

About 47% of the file is downloaded and then the downloading hangs.

This is bugging me, I am almost at the point where I am thinking about sniffer
the connection.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to download
http://sunset.usc.edu/classes/cs510_2004/notes/usc-cse-2001-501.doc
2. Hangs downloading.
3.

Actual Results:  
Download starts in Firefox and hans at 47%.   Mozilla hangs on 0%.

Expected Results:  
Downloaded the file completely.

I marked it as a Major issue since downloading files is very important when
browsing.

Comment 1

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

works for me with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/20070603 Minefield/3.0a6pre ID:2007060304 [cairo]

Reporter, do still have this reported problem in a recent build (like Firefox 2.0.0.4 or Gran Paradiso) ?

Comment 2

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Resolving as WORKSFORME due to lack of updates and per comment 1.