SAVE AS downloads empty files on Raspberry PI

[Assaf Shomer]

I am building a web app on my RP. The end product is a bunch of files the browser generates which the user needs to be able to download to a USB stick.

When you attempt to download a file and select the SAVE AS option in Midori you may be fooled to think it has been downloaded, but when you inspect the file it is empty. In fact, this bug seems like it has been reported and fixed before but in fact it is still broken the RP running version 0.4.3 of midori.

As far as i know, 0.4.3 is the latest stable version for RP. I attempted to run sudo apt-get install midori and my PI confirmed that midori is already on the latest version.

Interestingly enough, the SAVE option does work and correctly saves the file to the downloads directory that can be set in the browser's preferences, but I would like to leave the choice of file name and directory to the user.

[gue5t gue5t (gue5t)]

0.4.3 is ancient. I believe you can use a PPA or otherwise compile or find binaries of a newer version, as this bug has already been fixed; the only thing to do is to change your device to run a fixed version. http://www.midori-browser.org/ may help with getting a recent version of Midori.

[Assaf Shomer (assafshomer)]

Unfortunately, this is not so easy in practice.
0.4.3 is indeed ancient but despite considerable efforts it does not seem possible to update Midori or build the new version on a Raspberry Pi (I failed to find evidence of a single success case). When I tried to build Midori-0.5.7, after finally managing to build, 'make' fails due to missing references:

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cd /usr/lib/midori-0.5.7/
pi@raspberrypi /usr/lib/midori-0.5.7 $ cd _build/
pi@raspberrypi /usr/lib/midori-0.5.7/_build $ sudo make
[ 13%] Built target midori-core-vala
[ 30%] Built target midori-core
Linking C executable midori
libmidori-core.so.0.0.0: undefined reference to `midori_view_get_tls_info'
libmidori-core.so.0.0.0: undefined reference to `soup_proxy_resolver_gnome_get_type'
libmidori-core.so.0.0.0: undefined reference to `soup_cookie_jar_sqlite_new'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [midori/midori] Error 1
make[1]: *** [midori/CMakeFiles/midori.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
pi@raspberrypi

Also, are you able to point me to downloadable binaries of Midori in a version where this bug is fixed?

Thanks for taking the time to help.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for Midori because there has been no activity for 60 days.]