#8315: WebPositive auto-expanding but not changing mimetype ----------------------------------------+------------------------ Reporter: Pete | Owner: leavengood Type: bug | Status: closed Priority: normal | Milestone: R1 Component: Applications/WebPositive | Version: R1/alpha3 Resolution: invalid | Keywords: Blocked By: | Blocking: Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All ----------------------------------------+------------------------ Comment (by Pete): Replying to myself [comment:7 Pete]: > ... Have to wonder how common this is, though, as Firefox/Bezilla seems to handle the situation. I slightly suspect they must have taken special pains to avoid it ... Eh heh... For my own reasons, I wanted to grab a current rsync source, and the official repository seems to be http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.1.0.tar.gz. I used WP first to grab it, and once again the "tar.gz" file ended up as an actual tar file but still labelled ...gz. Here's the response header from the site: {{{ HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 00:02:38 GMT Server: Apache Last-Modified: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 03:01:29 GMT ETag: "1126983-d7cbd-4e77cef9f5440" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 883901 Content-Type: application/x-gzip Content-Encoding: gzip X-Pad: avoid browser bug }}} Once again, if I use Bezilla it gets downloaded as the stated tar.gz file. So it's not just fourmilab... -- Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/8315#comment:10> Haiku <https://dev.haiku-os.org> Haiku - the operating system.