GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 383957
download manager should not grab files from the cache
Last modified: 2007-05-30 11:19:42 UTC
If I click a link that is a media file such as wmv, it will try loading it with the totem plugin. Oops, I then realize I actually want to save the video, I hate embedded stuff! I go back, right click the link, and select "download link". The download manager will not even have the time to show up but the file will be saved to my desktop. However, it is incomplete. My best guess here is that epiphany wrongly assumes that I already loaded that file in the cache fully (since it is present in the cache), and assumes it can simply copy it over from the cache to the desktop, which is instantaneous. I can see the good in that idea, but it either needs to check for file completion, or it needs to download the file from scratch (yes, it's ugly, but other than that, you get *data corruption*!)
Thanks for the bug report. Can you give a test URL where this happens? Does the same thing happen when you do the analogous steps in firefox?
Hmm, well what you could do is this: left-click this link http://jeff.ecchi.ca/aiglx-damacy.avi it should start trying to play it embedded in the browser (especially if you have the totem-mozilla package installed). Now, go back to this page (that stops the playback, and I assume it stays in the cache partially loaded). Now instead of simply left-clicking that link, right-click it and select "download" (not "save as"). It should be instantaneous and you will end up with a partial file on your desktop. Can you reproduce?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 344572 ***