Bug 772500

Summary:	Downloading a 0 byte file is impossible in Firefox
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ian C <coldreactive>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	16	CC:	bazanluis20, gecko-bugs-nobody, stransky
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Description Ian C 2012-01-08 22:23:02 UTC

Description of problem:

Downloading a 0 byte file will not occur.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

9.0.1

How reproducible:

Downloading a file.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to https://raw.github.com/hermanus/gnome-shell-extensions/master/Gnome-shell-activities-hotspot-disabler/stylesheet.css
2. Right-click
3. Save page as...
  
Actual results:

File not downloaded.

Expected results:


All files should be downloadable, even empty, 0 byte files.

Comment 1 Martin Stransky 2012-02-14 18:18:14 UTC

Honestly, I think we have more pressing issues here. Feel free to report it at bugzilla.mozilla.org but I'm think no one will be in rush to fix it. Anyway, why do you need to download empty files?