Actually, what Mozilla does is download the file to your TEMP directory.
Then when it is done with the download it MOVEs it to the new name.
I don't believe it is pulling it from the cache.
Mike Kaply
IBM
Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> A couple of times when I asked for a download, the OS/2 file
> dialog told me that I already *had* a file of that name in my
> target directory. When I used the OS/2 file dialog to CHANGE
> the name of the file-as-stored (for instance, by appending '2'
> to the name), the Mozilla/2 download completed __quickly__.
> [I was already holding down <shift> while clicking on the URL.]
>
> What I believe happened was that Mozilla looked in its cache
> for a file of the original name, and just copied to the new
> name from the Mozilla cache. How, in this kind of a situation,
> (I believe the site I was trying to download from had *updated*
> the file since my previous download), can I __force__ Mozilla
> to do a download to the new name ? Is going into preferences,
> and clearing the caches, the only way ?
>
> mikus (using 2001052506)
