Saw the notice that a new version of an application was available
on the author's webpage.  [I had downloaded the previous version
of the application several days ago.]  Went to that website and
clicked on the URL for the .zip package.  The Mozilla/2 download
"completed" in less than two seconds.  [Obviously, that is less
time than it would take to transfer the file from the 'net.]

This time investigated the options available by right-button
clicking on the URL.  The 'save as' option would have downloaded
the cgi script to which the URL pointed, __not__ the .zip file
which that script eventually accessed.  My conclusion:  right-
button clicking does *not* force a new download of a file.

My solution was to go into Preferences -> Advanced -> Cache, and
clear the Mozilla disk cache.  Then when I clicked on the URL,
the .zip file *was* downloaded from the author's webpage.


The moral of this tale:  If Mozilla has "cached" a file it has
downloaded, and if the user issues another "download request"
for a file having that same name, Mozilla will satisfy that
request out of its "cache", without bothering to repeat the
download.  I DO NOT KNOW HOW to override this built-in behavior.


mikus  (using the 0609 VACPP version of Mozilla)


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