Open Bug 893480 Opened 11 years ago Updated 2 years ago

handling non-HTTP stream

Categories

(Firefox :: Downloads Panel, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Downloads Panel
Version:
22 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Windows 7
Type:
defect

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People

(Reporter: yangyudevel, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1500.71 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Open http://livebgp.netsec.colostate.edu:50001/
save page as
The URL is not malicious, it's just XML stream using TCP


Actual results:

Firefox performance severely degraded, the download will never finish


Expected results:

The stream loads fine as it does in Chrome/IE. The save should be a snapshot of the current version (length), not infinity...
User Agent 	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:46.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/46.0
Build ID 	20160111030207

Tested on Windows 7 x64 with the Nightly 46.0a1 build. I can reproduce the problem.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Untriaged → Downloads Panel
Ever confirmed: true
Seems likely this bug is related to the network layer rather than the front-end?
Component: Downloads Panel → Networking
Flags: needinfo?(mcmanus)
Product: Firefox → Core
core has no idea how much data the front end can tolerate.. FE needs to cancel the channel when it doesn't want any more. (or suspend/resume if it thinks it can catch up.)
Component: Networking → Downloads Panel
Flags: needinfo?(mcmanus)
Product: Core → Firefox
Severity: normal → S3
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