Opened 11 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
#1705 closed enhancement (fixed)
Add support for pausing and resuming file downloads
| Reported by: | Nicklas Nordborg | Owned by: | Nicklas Nordborg |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | BASE 3.2 |
| Component: | web | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: |
Description (last modified by )
Firefox (and Internet Explorer 9) has a feature when downloading files that allows a user to pause a download and then resume it later. However, this feature doesn't work when downloading files from BASE. Firefox displays an error:
<filename> could not be saved, because the source file could not be read. Try again later, or contact the server administrator.
The main reason behind the problem is that when resuming, Firefox submits a second download request to BASE that includes a "Range" header that include information about how much of the file that has already been downloaded.
When using IE 9 the "Pause" button is disabled. An additional "ETag" header is need in the response to enable the functionality. See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2011/06/03/send-an-etag-to-enable-http-206-file-download-resume-without-restarting.aspx
Change History (3)
comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by
| Description: | modified (diff) |
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| Owner: | changed from everyone to Nicklas Nordborg |
| Status: | new → assigned |
| Summary: | Add support for resuming downloads with Firefox → Add support for resuming file downloads |
comment:2 Changed 11 years ago by
| Description: | modified (diff) |
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| Summary: | Add support for resuming file downloads → Add support for pausing and resuming file downloads |
comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
(In [6071]) Fixes #1705: Add support for pausing and resuming file downloads