Roine Gustafsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On May 3, 2005, at 5:33 PM, Vicki Brown wrote:
> > Is there some magic incantation I can provide Camino to cause it to
> > download a .gz (gzip) file instead of thinking it's text to be 
> > displayed in the browser window?
> 
> No, Camino is doing the Right Thing, it's the webserver of the site you
> are visiting that is misconfigured.

[snip...]

> However, since this is a common plague, I wish there was a safety catch
> in Camino that wouldn't try to display something that is absurdly big
> and/or contains nonprintable characters as text, since it almost causes
> Camino to hang. Anyone feel like adding such a feature? Pretty please
> with sugar on top?

This safety catch already exists (see
<URL:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220807>), making it
wider would probably break more sites than it fixes.

-- 
"Honesty is a somewhat overrated virtue"
Lucifer in conversation with the angel Remiel
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