The provided URL is unavailable. Click on it and wait for error message from Download Manager. It will report something like 'O:\TMP\yw6tma0t.EXE could not be saved, bla-bla-bla.' It's very informative, isn't it? Reported filename is not related to the link at all. It is very confusing and really hard to realize what this report is about.

Not OS/2 specific

Not sure if this is same bug, but with windows 95 (not 98), the current nightly builds for a week or so are not able to download any file at all, and give the error listed by the bug submitter. This occurs for both ftp and http downloads.

Re comment #2: I'm seeing the same thing on WinMe and have also seen it under WinNT 4. God is this annoying...

Just wanted to note that I've seen this problem when downloading files. I'm using the 1.2 beta on W98. I haven't tried it anywhere but sourceforge.net, but it's completely reproducible. I can download the files fine using IE. e.g., go to http://telia.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/filezilla/FileZilla_2_1_2_setup.exe I get a message saying: "c:\windows\temp\wt9y5610.exe could not be saved, because the source file could not be read."

Just wanted to note that this seems to be the same as the following bug: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169276

I believe this differs from bug 169276. The latter is Windows-specific and related to valid links. This one in platform-independent and deals with links to non-existing files.

BTW, comments # 2,3,4 are actually related to the bug 169276. This bug is different (see previous comment).

So you're saying you'll get this message even if the file you're attempting to download doesn't exist? That is, same sort of error message, but different expected result (in one case you expect a download, in this case you expect an error message, but a different one)?

Kristian, exactly! Expected results are different. Original url is not resolved anymore. I've just changed it to resolvable one ;-)

*** Bug 176038 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 176533 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Recieving the same fault on the ["Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016" (1.2beta)] build.. Not sure what this depends on but I can't open the Download Manager either so it's probably related to that in some way.. Used to have a blank entry in the Download Manager aswell so I'm gonna try a clean reinstall (since I just did a smackbang upgrade ontop of 1.1beta) and feedback to this thread again..

reinstallation solved the problem!!! so, this bug is probably just a problem that occurs when upgrading?

Martin, what do you mean "solved the problem" ? How does the error message look at moment? Didn't you mix up this bug with bug 171441 ?

BTW, there are couple of bugreports related to blank entries in Download Manager: bug 155429 and bug 157062

Not mixing anything up here. This happened even when rightclicking, choosing "Save as" on links I had produced on my own with my cgi-script. http://mgroover.sytes.net/cgi-bin/link.pl?http://localhost/bogus.jpg for instance.. This gave the exact same problem as with valid links.. But, as I wrote before, the problem solved itself by just uninstalling and reinstalling.

Martin, the problem still persist here. Try to do exactly the following: 1. Click on link ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/test.bin 2. You'll get a message "550 /test.bin: bla-bla-bla". Click Ok. 3. You'll get a message like "O:\TMP\yw6tma0t.bin could not be saved, bla-bla-bla." which is exactly the subject of this bugreport. Does this happen on your side?

Fresh install of build 2002102812 has the problem.

I am having problem trying to download as well - it doesn't matter whether it exists on the system or not. I can't get into Download Manager and when I click on Save As it does nothing. I am using Mozilla 1.2b (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016. I upgrade my mozilla from 1.2a using the installer.

Sunny, likely your problem is resolved in bug 171441. Try to delete file compreg.dat. The second candidate is bug 162271. This bug deals with links to missing files only.

Seems to be fixed. Mozilla now reports the exact error received from ftp server.

Verified in the 2003-01-25-08 trunk build under Window XP.