[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [Lynx-dev] Unexpected behavior downloading Lynx's binary
|
From: |
Thomas Dickey |
|
Subject: |
Re: [Lynx-dev] Unexpected behavior downloading Lynx's binary |
|
Date: |
Sat, 31 Dec 2016 20:58:43 -0500 |
|
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 06:36:11PM -0800, address@hidden wrote:
> I found an unexpected behavior in downloading Lynx's binary by Lynx.
>
> http://invisible-mirror.net/archives/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.8.9dev.11.tar.bz2
> --> Downloaded file: lynx2.8.9dev.11.tar.bz2
> The file is gzipped. (mismatch between content (gzipped) and file
> extention (bz2))
>
> http://invisible-mirror.net/archives/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.8.9dev.11.zip
> --> Downloaded file: lynx2.8.9dev.11.zip.gz
> The file is gzipped but I expect not gzipped file, that is
> lynx2.8.9dev.11.zip.
>
> I tried it using 2.8.9dev.11 on Ubuntu 14.04.
> Configure option includes "--with-bzlib --with-zlib"
> Preferred encoding: All
>
> I found a discussion below.
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2016-08/msg00003.html
> Is this also a server problem?
perhaps (I just verified that the file _on_ the server is correct).
I'll investigate, but it's a low-cost hosting, so support is...
> According to the trace log, the server sent "Content-Encoding: gzip" in the
> response header in both cases.
> I think the client should store uncompressed files in these cases.
hmm - just ".tar" ?
(but then the server would not provide bzip2...)
--
Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature