Closed Bug 280623 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

error downloading a file: "could not be saved, because the source file could not be read."

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Product:
Core Graveyard
Component:
File Handling
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 230153

People

(Reporter: eippihuoywercs, Assigned: darin.moz)

References

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URL
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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050111
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050111

in mozilla (OR my rarely updated firefox), clicking the url gives an error. the
error window has no title. here is the message:
C:\DOCUME~1\...\LOCALS~1\Temp\3hhwx1vy.sig could not be saved, because the
source file could not be read.

Try again later, or contact the server administrator.
------------
ie gives no error, but the file doesn't download; instead you get a blank page.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"></HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>
----------------------
here are the HTTP headers (but not the body cuz it's binary)

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 08:15:01 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux mod_ssl/2.8.9 OpenSSL/0.9.6c PHP/4.3.9
Last-Modified: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 10:34:10 GMT
ETag: "6203d4-41-4108d2a2"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 65
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Encoding: x-gzip


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click the url (
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/mldonkey/mldonkey-2.5.22.tar.gz.sig )
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
C:\DOCUME~1\...\LOCALS~1\Temp\3hhwx1vy.sig could not be saved, because the
source file could not be read.

Try again later, or contact the server administrator.


Expected Results:  
asked me what to do with the unrecognized type, "application/pgp-signature" and
given me a "save as" button
Assignee: general → darin
Component: General → Networking
Product: Mozilla Application Suite → Core
QA Contact: general → benc
Version: unspecified → Trunk
See the same with Mozilla 1.8b build 2005012606 on WInNT4. If I try "Save link
As" it seems that the download works (progress dialog, no error), but the file
is not downloaded. No errors in the JS console.
I have seen this problem from time to time. After uninstalling the current
version, verifying the Mozilla folder is empty, and installing a new version I
check to make sure that I can save files (I usually download the installer
again). After the next reboot, downloads fail with the message listed.

This problem doesn't happen every time I do the uninstall/install process. When
it does I just reinstall and everything is fine.

It's as if the uninstall could not remove some file and sets up the remove for
the next reboot. There is no message indicating the unstall requires a reboot to
complete. The next install sees the file is already present and doesn't load a
new copy.

Is there a particular file that if it was missing would cause this problem?

this specific problem is caused by the server sending a mime type that mozilla
can't handle itself (which is fine), combined with a content-encoding:gzip
header for a file that's not actually gzipped (which you might call a bug in
apache).

it's already known though.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 230153 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Component: Networking → File Handling
QA Contact: benc → ian
Summary: error downloading a file that can be downloaded with wget, or other tools (but not in ie). error displayed is: "could not be saved, because the source file could not be read." → error downloading a file: "could not be saved, because the source file could not be read."
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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