#8315: WebPositive auto-expanding but not changing mimetype --------------------------------------+-------------------------- 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 | --------------------------------------+-------------------------- 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 -- Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/8315> Haiku <http://dev.haiku-os.org> Haiku - the operating system.