461831 - downloaded files are corrupt

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Bernd]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092510 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092510 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.3

downloaded file sometimes contains strange content-type and content-range headers, file will be corrupt but file size doesn't change.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
If you try to download this file: 

http://www.ccc.de/wahlcomputer/CCC-BerichtBrandenburg.pdf 

it will have a different md5sum (but exact same size) everytime you try. I have managed to get the original file and made a diff to a corrupted version:

http://pastebin.com/f79fec26c

(i converted both files to hex with hd and then made diff -u)
--- is the corrupted file
+++ is the working one

The content-Type and content-range headers seem to be created by the server but a quick test with opera showed that different browsers seem to behave different. I wasn't able to do one single uncorrupted download with firefox but with opera two out of two tries were correct.

Comment 1

[Bernd]

someone has managed to reproduce this bug with another browser, so it's probably not firefox' fault.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Read http://www.soswd.com/writing_bugs.html.

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for Firefox General bugs filed against version 3.0 that are UNCO and have not been changed for 200 days.

Reporter, please update to Firefox 3.6.10 or alter. Firefox 3.0 is no longer supported and is no longer receiving updates. After you update, please create a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/kb/managing+profiles, and test to see if your bug still exists. If you still the bug, then please post a comment with the version you tested against, and the problem. If the issue is no longer there, please set the RESOLUTION to  RESOLVED, WORKSFORME.

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply from reporter, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.