323541 - Download. When a site trys to auto start a download, get error message about file could not be read.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 298478

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Jonathan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2 x64; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050628 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2 x64; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050628 Firefox/1.0+

Get the following error when a site tryes to auto start a download.
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E:\<path to save location>\xxxx.bz2 could not be saved, because the source file could not be read.

Try again later, or contact the server administrator.
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I am able to save the file, if I right click and select "Save link as"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to provided URL (sourceforge.com)
2.Left click "Download" link
3.Wait for the page to try and start a download.

Actual Results:  
Get the following error when a site tryes to auto start a download.
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E:\<path to save location>\xxxx.xxx could not be saved, because the source file could not be read.

(Tryed with several different compression files. zip, rar, bz2, gz, etc... All produced same result)

Try again later, or contact the server administrator.
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Expected Results:  
Should pop up a "Save" or "Save As" window for the download.

Running Deer Park Alpha 1 with no extra plugins. Just the default install on WinXP 64bit.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

You're using an old build with an ugly bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 298478 ***