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Bug 113481 - Built-in downloader doesn't check destination write permissions
Built-in downloader doesn't check destination write permissions
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 90980
Product: galeon
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
1.2.7
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: galeon-maint
Yanko Kaneti
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-05-21 22:30 UTC by Dick Gingras
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
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Description Dick Gingras 2003-05-21 22:30:48 UTC 
Galeon's built-in downloader doesn't check that the user has write
permissions for the destination directory. Since all files are first
downloaded to /tmp and only moved to the destination directory after the
download has completed, this can result in an enormous waste of time.
Comment 1 Yanko Kaneti 2003-05-23 17:22:51 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 90980 ***
Comment 2 Dick Gingras 2003-05-23 17:49:30 UTC 
I agree with the poster of Bug# 90980 that the download should NOT be
staged in /tmp before being moved to the selected destination directory.

If the destination directory is on a different partition than /tmp,
the staging process requires that you have sufficient space in both
directories. In my case, downloading an ISO image would require 700MB
in each. Those of us who partition disks for optimal backup usually
don't assign much space to a /tmp partition, so making it the default
staging area creates a problem.

The solution is to either never stage to /tmp or to make the staging
area user-definable.
Comment 3 Yanko Kaneti 2003-05-23 18:35:51 UTC 
You can follow the "downloads via /tmp" soap opera here
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69938