\begin{Howard Lowndes}
> My apache used to do a server side decompression on gz files so that they
> displayed in the browser, but since I have upgraded apache all Netscape
> now does is to pop up the dialog box to save the uncompressed file.
> Where have I gone wrong?
the decompression is actually done client side in netscape.
in MIME, compression is just an "encoding", its not a different MIME
type (there is no "application/gzip" or whatever). its supposed to be
mostly transparent, which means that frequently netscape saves files
uncompressed, but still with the .gz extension, since that was the
filename the web server gave the browser -- even though the file has
already been uncompressed.
there's a very funky mod_gzip (and a similar one written for mod_perl)
for apache that conditionally gzips files on the fly, making for
smaller downloads.
add "AddEncoding x-gzip gz" to an apache config file somewhere, and
all should be well.
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- Gus
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