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Re: Weird problem with downloading

Subject: Re: Weird problem with downloading
From: "Steven V. Gunhouse"
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 04:49:33 GMT
Newsgroups: opera.general
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:19:07 -0400, Lee Harvey <leeharvey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Michael Langner wrote:
I've got a weird problem with my Opera 8.01, build 7642.

When I'm downloading a file from a regular link the download stops as
soon as I close the tab from which the file was linked.

For example: I go to
<http://source.rfc822.org/pub/mirror/releases.ubuntu.com/5.04/> and
click on "Intel x86 install CD".

It starts downloading, but as soon as I close the tab the download
stops and I've got to hit "resume".

It looks like the .iso content is being delivered as MIME type "text/plain"
from the server.  As such, the download wants to replace the current page
(at least here when I click the links), since I have text/plain to "Open
with Opera".  If/when the page closes, the download terminates.

As a work-around, right-click on the links, select "Save target as..." to
download/save the file locally.

HTH


Actually, halting when closing the tab is a known bug in 8.0 and 8.01, it is fixed in the current beta version. In other words, 8.02 should fix this and be available shortly.

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