I've noticed that cvsweb.cgi sometimes gives me GZIP and sometimes not. I
tracked down a fix for my needs, but would like some feedback please.
The problem arose when FreshPorts old me it couldn't do anything with a
Makefile it had just obtained (via fetch), so I went to look. What I
found was a garbled Makefile. Actually, it was GZIP'd, not ASCII.
$ fetch -o Makefile
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/www/mnoGoSearch-current/Makefile?rev=1.3
Receiving Makefile: 0 Kbytes
897 bytes transferred in 0.0 seconds (603.71 Kbytes/s)
$ file Makefile
Makefile: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Tue Jan 30
14:00:38 2001, max speed, os: Unix
So then I started experimenting, and check the web interface. Then I used
this:
$ fetch -o Makefile
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/ports/www/mnoGoSearch-current/Makefile?rev=1.3
Receiving Makefile: 1 Kbytes
1799 bytes transferred in 0.0 seconds (1241.55 Kbytes/s)
$ file Makefile
Makefile: ASCII text
Which is what one would expect.
Why does one give the expected results and the other doesn't? I expected
both to give the same.
thanks
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