Mike! un jour écriva:
Adam Piggott wrote:
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Hiya,
I'm having problems with http://borft.student.utwente.nl/~adrian/bt.php
using Firefox. All of the links to .gz's cause Firefox to report an error
along the lines of "<temp path/file> could not be saved, because the
source
file could not be read."
I've tried it with a different PC to the same effect; IE and Opera
seem to
work OK. They used to work a few months ago I believe.
The only difference I can see is that the .gz torrents have this extra
HTTP
header: Content-Encoding: x-gzip
Is this just me or should I file an issue?
Ive noticed it as well, I'll look into it, i'm not sure if it's a
firefox bug or not.
Mike
It remember me a bug in Apache 1.3 that won't be fixed. You seems
to use Apache 2.0.55, and It should be fixed AFAIK. But as a quick
fix, commenting those lines in /etc/apache/http.conf will deactivate
completelly the feature that cause this problem by commenting it:
# AddEncoding x-compress Z
# AddEncoding x-gzip gz tgz
The problem appear when the file have some extension like
.tar.gz.sign or .tar.gz.sig and that the webserver wrongly identify
them as compressed text files (from mod_mime).
Then, if the browsers support it, it will try to unzip the file on
the fly before showing it up to the user uncompressed (which is not
possible). In the case of IE, if it fail to uncompress it, it will
try again while ignoring the "Content-Encoding: x-gzip" directive.
Firefox, Safari and most Mozilla based browsers will react the same
way, because Mozilla have decided to follow the official standard
while IE and apparently Opera didn't (it is specified somewhere inside
a RFC).
From memory, the feature exist to allow a web server to
transparently send in gzip format a file that would normally not be
compressed, and thus save bandwidth and page load time.
You won't see the problem with wget, because it doesn't support the
feature at all and just ignore it.
That's from memory, so the details might be a bit different, but
that's the general idea.
Simon Valiquette
http://gulus.USherbrooke.ca
http://www.gulus.org
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