64744 - download broken ftp fails, no error.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(SeaMonkey :: Download & File Handling, defect)

Description

[Guy Rixon]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u)
BuildID:    2000123121

Mozilla failed to give a warning dialogue when a file to be downloaded was
unavailable.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to URL given above.
2. Follow the link "gz-compressed Postscript" in the bulletted list
   at the top of the page.
3. Ask for the document to be saved to disc.

Actual Results:  Mozilla creates the local copy of the file, but puts nothing in
it. After ~3s, mozilla says "Document done" and quotes a download time of ~3s.
Local copy of the file ends up with zero bytes.

Expected Results:  As per Netscape 4.x, the browser should post  dialogue saying
that the file is unavailable.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

dup of bug 25014 "Inaccessible file/directory not handled"
(by way of dup bug 37367 "Need error message when ftp directory or file does not
exist")

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 25014 ***

Comment 2

[benc]

VERIFIED:
Updated URL to broken link.

Comment 3

[benc]

REOPEN -> Download manager.

Mozilla 1.1b, Win98

STEPS:
do "Save link as" on a broken FTP link.

No error mesage, no save dialog box.

Comment 4

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/2002080820

I tried "save link target as on a broken ftp-link. I got a save as dialog. No
file was saved and no error displayed, though. Therefore, confirming and
adjusting Platform/OS.

pi

Comment 5

[Mel Reyes]

All downloading has been broken since about the 9/28-9/29 daily builds.

This really sucks sometime I get an error sometimes I don't, download manager
doesn't either.

Comment 6

[Bas van Duijnhoven]

I'm seeing this bug also in 1.1b (B ID 2002101612) on Win98
This really, really sucks. I sometimes get the message:

C:\windows\temp\<some filename> could not be saved because the source files
could not be read. Tray again later or contact the server's administrator [OK]

Hope this will be fixed soon. I have to use IE now YUCK!!!

Comment 7

[Tim Fry]

I get the same thing every time I try to download or save something with Mozilla
1.2 beta.  I have to open IE to download anything I need to have on my computer.
 Wish I could describe things more that that.

Comment 8

[Ann Dupuis]

I just installed mozilla 1.2 build 2002101612, and the first thing I tried to do
with it was download a 2.4 MB file. On some attempts I got no response (no error
message but no file, either), on others I got the following error message:

C:\TEMP\wvfs4vzj.EXE could not be saved, because the source file could not be
read. Try again later, or contact the server administrator.

(The error message window's title line read "Downloading C:\TEMP\wvfs4vzj.EXE")

The file I was downloading was named something completely different, but I won't
repeat it here. The status bar at the bottom of the mozilla window correctly
identified the target file and its url. 

This file is in a protected directory requiring a username and password (I had
no difficulties logging in through mozilla), in case that makes a difference. I
haven't tried downloading any non-protected files in this build.

Explorer (my backup browser when Mozilla's not working for me) was able to
download the file with no difficulties.

I'm using Windows NT.

Comment 9

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->default contacts

Comment 10

[Paul miranda]

I see this problem with Netscape 7.1 on Windows XP Pro at least once a week.
Once it has happened, I can't "save as" any files, either from the browser, or
for attachments in mail (IMAP). I've found that reinstalling fixes it.
I've seen this once with Netscape 7.1 on Windows 2000 SP2.

Comment 11

[Fyodor Gayokho]

When I try to download any file, download can stop before end of file for some
reason, but there is no error message and file status is "Complete" in download
manager. It is very pity, becuase I must switch to another download managers.

Comment 12

[Christopher Whitt]

I'm getting connection refused errors on the FTP url.  Can anybody post an
updated URL for this?

Comment 13

[Jonathan Payne]

I see this problem on the MAC (OX X, 10.3, 10.4) all the time. When I download
large files I get an EOF sometimes with an error popup and sometimes not, but
the download manager thinks I have the whole file. If I switch to Safari I get
the whole file every time.

This has been bothering me for a year or so on the mac. I am not sure if it's
the same bug as filed, because I have never ever seen this on my Windows XP box.
And this bug was filed in 2003 but it's 2005 now!

Comment 14

[Jonathan Payne]

I forgot to mention in previous comment that I am using Firefox 1.0.4.

Comment 15

[Robert Kaiser]

Please-test this with SeaMonkey 2.0 Beta 1 or later and reopen if it still happens.