On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 23:07:42 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 22:49:35 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote:

>> On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 04:06:41 +0000, Michael Polak wrote:

>>> so - is arachne 1.71 ready to be announced, or not ?

>> Can you answer the question of why Dos_Lynx, Linux_NS and Win95_NS
>> are automatically Gzipping ara171ue.exe when it downloaded.

>> The content-type that Angelfire is sending is "application/x-msdownload"

>> Arachne downloads the file just fine. 1,039,025 bytes.

>> All 3 of the others Gzip the file and it ends-up as a .GZ which must be
>> Gunzipped and renamed as ara171ue.exe

>> Why is this happening????

> There.... it just did the same thing thing with testdoc.doc

> http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/testdoc.htm

> Content-type for testdoc.doc is "application/msword"

> Dos_Lynx D/Ls a Gzipped file at 5,714 bytes
> Arachne D/Ls the file as-is at 23,255 bytes.
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Oops, that was a typo. I meant 23,552 bytes.


> Volume in drive C is MCCORKLE_01
> Directory of  C:\1RECV

> TESTDOC  GZ      5714 11-29-02 10:58p
> TESTDOC  DOC    23552 11-29-02 10:59p

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