[haiku-bugs] [Haiku] #8315: WebPositive auto-expanding but not changing mimetype
- From: "Pete" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:56:33 -0000
#8315: WebPositive auto-expanding but not changing mimetype
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Reporter: Pete | Owner: leavengood
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Applications/WebPositive | Version: R1/alpha3
Keywords: | Blocked By:
Blocking: | Has a Patch: 0
Platform: All |
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There was a particular gzipped-tar file I needed to download, and used
WebPositive to do so. However, Expander wouldn't handle the downloaded
file. I switched to BeZilla, and got a file that unpacked correctly.
Looking at the two versions of the file, I saw that the BeZilla one was
~100kB, but the WP one was 290kB! They both had the same filename, and
were "application/x-gzip". Reaching the obvious conclusion, I ran "tar
-xzf..." from the terminal on the WP file and of course it worked.
WP had already expanded it for me, but failed to rename it or change the
mimetype!
I tried the same on a "tgz" file from my own website, and neither Bezilla
nor WP had any problems. A copy renamed "...tar.gz" was just as happy.
Digging a bit further, I used "wget --save-headers..." on all the files,
and found I was being served different headers in each case.
My tgz file has
Content-Type: application/x-tar
while the tar.gz one is:
Content-Type: application/x-gzip
Apache supplied neither with a "Content-Encoding:" header.
The failing file, in contrast, has:
Content-Type: application/x-tar
Content-Encoding: x-gzip
FTR the file causing problems is
http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/midicsv/midicsv-1.1.tar.gz
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