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
