On 30 December 2013 16:25, Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> wrote: > On the en-Forum there have been some reports of "Download interrupted", from > memory these are mostly from users of Chrome browser. We normally advise use > (either permanently or on a one off basis) of Firefox.
Not sure that is wise. Firefox may not suffer from interrupted downloads, however it does suffer from silent partial downloads. There is a long-standing bug on this, which shows little sign of being addressed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237623 I have experienced this bug myself with some servers in the past. When I used tools such as wget and curl these handled temporary breaks in the download and resume correctly - or gave up with an error. Whereas under some conditions Firefox just terminated the download with no error being reported. I have not experienced it recently; however that may be more due to improvements in server behaviour rather than a fix to the Firefox bug. Hashes and sigs can of course be used to check whether the download has completed OK. > A current case is > https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=66618#p296227 > which links to a possible flaw in the file server. > > The suggested flaw may be worth investigating. > > -- > Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
