On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:38:30 -0500 (EST), I wrote: > > > On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > > >> The correct size of the file is 1,039,025 bytes. > > >> This lets you know that if the file you got is less than that size. > >> The download is incomplete and you must do it again. > > > Errr, no, you managed to confuse a lot of software by creating a gzipped > > file that had the wrong file extension on it. Seems like most software > > detected it as a gzipped file, but only some automatically gunzipped it, > > and did it without asking. > > I did not create a Gzipped file. > > The file on the site IS a Dos executable.
[snip] Glenn, my apologies for intemperate criticism based on my misunderstandings and lack of knowledge (and an apology for my late apologies, been away from my computers for a couple of days). I just read through all the mail on this and decided I needed to find out more. A Google search on "Apache compression" turns up this page: http://www.innerjoin.org/apache-compression/howto.html where there is a link to http://www.innerjoin.org/apache-compression/index.html I quote from the latter page: "Many browsers can accept gzip compressed data, uncompress it and display it. Apache can, with various modules, compress data as it is served or read compressed files from disc and uncompress if it is necessary." So, it is the server that is doing the compressing. Now, whether the server at your end is misconfigured or there is something else going I do not know. On the first of the pages mentioned above, there is a lot of detail about the compression modes, and HTTP headers and other stuff. It seems that all this is a WWW consortium standard, though not part of the RFC standards. Unfortunately, I cannot take this up again for a few days. Have a couple of urgent tasks here at the University to deal with. Perhaps somebody else listening in can look at what the Angelfire server is doing with HTTP 1.1 requests. Later -- Gregor J Jones mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston MA
