IE7, application/x-tar and our archive.apache.org .tar.gz's

2007-09-11 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
There seems to be troubles in paradise. cc'ing httpd who had recently updated mime-types. I'm not speaking about IE7's refusal to assign quality quotients to their Accept: alternatives, no, this is a bit trickier and it looks like we are in the wrong. An example document,

Re: IE7, application/x-tar and our archive.apache.org .tar.gz's

2007-09-11 Thread Nick Kew
On 11 Sep 2007, at 23:26, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Best I can figure, this is really application/x-tar+x-gzip (or would that be application/x-gzip+x-tar?) if we don't want to (and we don't want to) advertise the content stream as gzip'ed (preventing automatic inflation which would cause

Re: IE7, application/x-tar and our archive.apache.org .tar.gz's

2007-09-11 Thread Nikolas Coukouma
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: An example document, /dist/httpd/httpd-2.2.6.tar.gz is requested and ... Best I can figure, this is really application/x-tar+x-gzip (or would that be application/x-gzip+x-tar?) if we don't want to (and we don't want to) advertise the content stream as gzip'ed

Re: IE7, application/x-tar and our archive.apache.org .tar.gz's

2007-09-11 Thread Nikolas Coukouma
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: There seems to be troubles in paradise. cc'ing httpd who had recently updated mime-types. Best I can figure, this is really application/x-tar+x-gzip (or would that be application/x-gzip+x-tar?) if we don't want to (and we don't want to) advertise the content

Re: IE7, application/x-tar and our archive.apache.org .tar.gz's

2007-09-11 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Nick Kew wrote: On 11 Sep 2007, at 23:26, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Best I can figure, this is really application/x-tar+x-gzip (or would that be application/x-gzip+x-tar?) if we don't want to (and we don't want to) advertise the content stream as gzip'ed (preventing automatic inflation

Re: IE7, application/x-tar and our archive.apache.org .tar.gz's

2007-09-11 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Nikolas Coukouma wrote: Due to the lack of a real standard (AFAIK ...) that doesn't use content encodings, it's hard to say what is correct. Agreed... If it's decided to avoid the use of Content-Encoding (is the hash and signature problem that bad?) Yes if mirrors can't be

Re: IE7, application/x-tar and our archive.apache.org .tar.gz's

2007-09-11 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Nikolas Coukouma wrote: It should also be noted that this has been discussed here before, in February of 2003 http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-dev/200302.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually this wasn't; that subject was filename munging and content-type inference. This is

Re: IE7, application/x-tar and our archive.apache.org .tar.gz's

2007-09-11 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Jochen Wiedmann wrote: On 9/12/07, William A. Rowe, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But within IE7, the request is truncated at 4864kb instead of the expected 6mb. My best guess is that IE believes it can grok the file as it's advertised content type. Is it possible that the browser invokes