472710 - Allow resuming paused downloads across quit/relaunch

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Downloading, enhancement)

Description

[punkrafrock]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en; rv:1.9.0.6pre) Gecko/2008121820 Camino/2.0b1 (like Firefox/3.0.6pre)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en; rv:1.9.0.6pre) Gecko/2008121820 Camino/2.0b1 (like Firefox/3.0.6pre)

If you quit Camino while a download is in progress (or while it's paused), quitting will cancel the download and you won't be able to resume it in your next Camino session.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start a download with Camino
2. Quit Camino while your download is in progress (or pause it and then quit)
3. Restart a new Camino session
Actual Results:  
Download is cancelled and can't be resumed.

Expected Results:  
Downloads should be or remain paused when you quit with downloads in progress and you should be able to resume them in your next Camino session. Downloads should be cancelled only when you manually cancel them.

*It could also be a good idea to add a "Check existing data" feature : if you accidentally cancel a download, you go pick the same link again, and if your unfinished file is still in your download folder, Camino checks the existing data and continues to download the file at the % it had stopped (idea took from the Transmission BitTorrent client).

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

This is essentially covered by bug 215343; the API we have to use for that supports cross-session resumable downloads, as far as I can recall.

Comment 2

[Stuart Morgan]

There will probably some extra work for paused downloads, so let's confirm this and mark the dependency.

Comment 3

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

This bug has been buried in the graveyard and has not been updated in over 5 years. It is probably safe to assume that it will never be fixed, so resolving as WONTFIX.

[Mass-change filter: graveyard-wontfix-2014-09-24]