97030 - Should show determinate progress when uploading to HTTP

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 24197

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, enhancement)

Description

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Build: 2001082104, Mac OS 9.1

To reproduce:
1.  Go to http://validator.w3.org/file-upload.html.
2.  Attach a large HTML file, such as a saved copy of <http://slashdot.org/>.
3.  Click `Validate this document'.
4.  Watch the status bar.

What you see:
*   The text `Connected to validator.w3.org'.
*   An indeterminate progress indicator as the file is uploaded.

What you should see:
*   Text of the form `36 K of 105 K sent (4.7 K/second), 17 seconds
    remaining ...' (compare bug 88982 -- the only difference is `read' vs.
    `sent')
*   A determinate progress indicator showing how much of the file has been
    uploaded.

Rationale:
*   This is a semi-frequent problem at the cafe; someone attaches a large
    picture to a Hotmail message (not realizing that it's really large), and
    then thinks MSIE has hung when it takes so long to continue.
*   By showing more determinate progress, we don't make Mozilla perform any
    faster, but we make it *look* as if it's performing faster.

Comment 1

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

-> darin

Comment 2

[Benjamin Mucci]

Great idea.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 24197 ***

Comment 4

[John Unruh]

verified duplicate

Comment 5

[shirish]

guys, this has been in the dormancy for so long guys. Cannot something be done about this one?