Random 0kb HTML download?

[DarkUnderlord]

When you go into your downloaded files history, do the files show up there? What's their source url?

 

[Strange Fellow]

When you go into your downloaded files history, do the files show up there? What's their source url?

moz-safe-about resource

 

[DarkUnderlord]

Best I can find is it's something do with https vs http and Firefox being a POS.

Try this:

This can be caused by downloading a file over an insecure HTTP link from a secure HTTPS page (i.e.there is mixed content on the page).

You can try to modify this pref on the about:config page to see if that has effect.

• about:config => dom.security.https_only_mode_send_http_background_request = false
• https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-config-editor-firefox

Failing that, uninstall Firefox and use a better browser.

If that still doesn't work, kill yourself.

Let me know which result works for you.

 

[ShaggyMoose]

I assume you found this in the Mozilla support thread here?

Same thread also suggests that if you can fix this on the server side by ensuring you don't have any resources with no specified protocol. e.g. //picsum.photos/200.jpg

 

[Taluntain]

But that would require work.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

I assume you found this in the Mozilla support thread here?

Same thread also suggests that if you can fix this on the server side by ensuring you don't have any resources with no specified protocol. e.g. //picsum.photos/200.jpg

Yes but think about it for a moment.

Your browser is finding links with no specified protocol (like, how the internet works) and it's saying, "I will now generate a 0kb htm file with a random name".

At what point did somebody program that? Makes you think.

 

[Strange Fellow]

It seems to work. Thanks, administration, for troubleshooting things for me so I don't have to do it myself.

 

[ShaggyMoose]

Your browser is finding links with no specified protocol (like, how the internet works) and it's saying, "I will now generate a 0kb htm file with a random name".

At what point did somebody program that? Makes you think.

Definitely seems like a feature to me.

 

[Jermu]

this only happens to me (before and after redesign) when I open rpgcodex while using full screen mode (f11)