Re: [PHP] Re: zip and mac safari

2010-10-10 Thread a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk
Using the gz compression should be fine, as most browsers are able to open pages which use this compression mechanism. The only issue might possibly be windows, but I've had problems before on that where the built in xp zip reader wasn't able to 'see' the entire contents of a zip created in winz

Re: [PHP] Re: zip and mac safari

2010-10-09 Thread M. Reuter
Yes, certainly that is causing the problem. As I said it is only the decompress tool in safari that has problems. But the problem is that most Mac users who download stuff from my page will not try again, if the build in Safari tool does not work directly. By now I tried: default zip class anothe

Re: [PHP] Re: zip and mac safari

2010-10-09 Thread TR Shaw
Safari has a pref not to auto open files (which IMHO is a pref that should be set). Perhaps this is causing your issues? Tom On Oct 9, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Martin Reuter wrote: > It works in other browsers and it works when storing it and unzipping in a > terminal on OSX. I think it is probably

Re: [PHP] Re: zip and mac safari

2010-10-09 Thread Martin Reuter
It works in other browsers and it works when storing it and unzipping in a terminal on OSX. I think it is probably a safari unzipped bug (not sure what tool safari chooses to automatically unzipped without asking). the weird thing is that some people report it works, so maybe they don't store di

Re: [PHP] Re: zip and mac safari

2010-10-08 Thread TR Shaw
I don't have any problem in this regard. On Oct 8, 2010, at 11:09 AM, Nathan Rixham wrote: > M. Reuter wrote: >> Hi, >> does anyone know how to use a php script to zip a folder (with a >> subfolder) so that safari can open it and not decompresses forever? > > if it works in other browsers, and n