Cyril,

Am 26.02.19 um 14:10 schrieb Tim Düsterhus:
> Am 26.02.19 um 13:29 schrieb Cyril Bonté:
>> Well, this is more a browser bug than a misconfiguration. But for now, the 
>> configuration requires a workaround to not use "Content-Encoding: gzip" for 
>> gzipped files.
>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610679
>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=902503
>>
> 
> The fact that I was able to reproduce it with `curl` when setting
> `Accept-Encoding: gzip` and that the .tar.gz-file is delivered as
> `application/x-tar` instead of `application/gzip` or
> `application/tar+gzip` (https://superuser.com/a/960710/107543) indicates
> that this is not a browser bug, but rather actual double compression.
> 

Scratch that, please. You are correct of course. The web browser should
strip one of the gzip layers, because the Content-Encoding is properly
set to `gzip`. Thus a .tar.gz (with an incorrect mime type), matching
the file on the server, remains.

Best regards
Tim Düsterhus

Reply via email to