Dale Luck wrote:
> Took me awhile to get it to happen again. It appears to be signal42.com that 
> downloads a 3M file instead of a 977k file.

It may be http headers that your browser interprets and then decompresses on
your end:

Here's proof that the server is sending it compressed (excuse the word wrap,
which makes it look a bit confusing):

$ wget
http://www.signal42.com/mirrors/apache/spamassassin/source/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.4.tar.gz
--15:59:52--
http://www.signal42.com/mirrors/apache/spamassassin/source/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.4.tar.gz
           => `Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.4.tar.gz'
Connecting to www.signal42.com:80... connected!
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1,001,430 [application/x-tar]
  [... snip ...]
15:59:55 (440.92 KB/s) - `Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.4.tar.gz' saved
[1001430/1001430]

$ ls -l Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.4.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 sidney   user      1001430 Jun  5 18:39
Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.4.tar.gz


 -- sidney


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