Status: Unconfirmed
Owner: [email protected]
Labels: Type-Bug Pri-2 OS-All Area-Misc

New issue 5772 by john.waffles: tar.gz files are uncompressed during  
download, and result in a file with extension .tar.gz.tar
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=5772

Chrome Version       : 1.0.154.36
URLs (if applicable) :
Other browsers tested:
      Safari 3: Not tested
     Firefox 3: OK
          IE 7: FAIL (subtly different: IE didn't uncompress the file, but
did save it with a .tar.tar extension instead of the correct .tar.gz)

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Find a .tar.gz file for download somewhere (e.g.,  
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html_node.tar.gz)
2. Click the link to download the file, or right-click and 'Save link
as...'

What is the expected result?

File should be downloaded with its original .tar.gz extension, without any
extra processing (ie, it should still *be* a .tar.gz file)

What happens instead?

File is downloaded with a .tar.gz.tar extension (if using the 'Save link
as...' route, the default filename has this extension), and is the
gunzipped tar file not the original compressed file as sent by the server.

Other info:

I tried it in Firefox using the Live HTTP Headers extension.  In the
example URL above, the server is specifying Content-Type as application/x-
tar and Content-Encoding as gzip, so arguably IE and Chrome are correct.
However from my point of view as a user, it's not the result I expect or
want. Also, this has occurred with downloads of .tar.gz files from several
different websites, which would indicate that either most servers are set
up to give those headers, or that there's a deeper problem.



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