358914 - malformed downloads.rdf results in download window malfunction

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Michael Hallquist]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

Using FF2.0 on WinXP, I downloaded a file from the web and told the browser to save it in My Documents. The download completed successfully, but the download window did not come up and the "downloads complete" message did not display. When I looked in the error console, I found this: 

Error: not well-formed
Source File: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Miranda%20Galvin/Application%20Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/zy06frll.default/downloads.rdf
Line: 17, Column: 63
Source Code:
    <RDF:li RDF:resource="C:\DOCUME~1\MIRAND~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\hþJipart-mixed; boundary=-------------090202050101070701090402-.doc"/>--------------------------------------------------------------^

When I opened the downloads.rdf file manually, I found that indeed, the download listed above had some funky characters in it (I'm guessing that's the problem). I believe this file was downloaded from Gmail. If it would be helpful, I could email the offending downloads.rdf file, which I saved. When I opened the downloads window within Firefox, it was blank and the error console displayed: Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "ServiceManager::GetService returned failure code:"  nsresult: "0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://mozapps/content/downloads/downloads.js :: Startup :: line 476"  data: no]

Hitting clean up did not fix the problem. Deleting the downloads.rdf file did, of course, fix the problem.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Michael, could you attach the downloads.rdf file to the bug, by using the "Create a New Attachment" link?

Comment 2

[Michael Hallquist]

Attachment: Malformed Downloads.rdf

This is the file that caused the error.

Comment 4

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

Fixed with Bug 380250.