On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 06:36:11PM -0800, [email protected] wrote: > I found an unexpected behavior in downloading Lynx's binary by Lynx. > > http://invisible-mirror.net/archives/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.8.9dev.11.tar.bz2 > --> Downloaded file: lynx2.8.9dev.11.tar.bz2 > The file is gzipped. (mismatch between content (gzipped) and file > extention (bz2)) > > http://invisible-mirror.net/archives/lynx/tarballs/lynx2.8.9dev.11.zip > --> Downloaded file: lynx2.8.9dev.11.zip.gz > The file is gzipped but I expect not gzipped file, that is > lynx2.8.9dev.11.zip. > > I tried it using 2.8.9dev.11 on Ubuntu 14.04. > Configure option includes "--with-bzlib --with-zlib" > Preferred encoding: All > > I found a discussion below. > https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2016-08/msg00003.html > Is this also a server problem?
perhaps (I just verified that the file _on_ the server is correct). I'll investigate, but it's a low-cost hosting, so support is... > According to the trace log, the server sent "Content-Encoding: gzip" in the > response header in both cases. > I think the client should store uncompressed files in these cases. hmm - just ".tar" ? (but then the server would not provide bzip2...) -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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