[plug] Interesting "opportunity" with Firefox and downloading

[Jim Householder]

Richard Meyer wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just a brief note about downloading software with FF and Konqueror. I
> decided to download the sample VNC client software for Nortel Contivity
> from Apani. This is in a number of formats, including several different
> source RPMs and TGZs. I downloaded the SUSE ones using FF, and noticed
> that when doing an ls -l on the downloaded software, that the source RPM
> I'd downloaded was about 10 bytes longer than the site said it should
> be, and the TXZ was about double the size. I repeated the download and
> the same thing happened. 
> 
> So I fired up Konqy and did the download from there and the sizes were
> exactly what the site said they were.
> 
> Why there's a problem, I couldn't tell you, but it appears that
> Konqueror is the superior solution when downloading using a browser.
> 
> Anybody else noticed this behaviour?
> 
Could be that FF is not treating the files as binary, and 'adjusting' 
them.  Try forcing binary and see what happens.

Jim