It's crazy... I can confirm it's encoded properly with wget, and yet still fails on chrome & firefox on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit.
I download gzip'd tarballs all the time... as an experiment, I changed my accepted encodings in firefox to not accept gzip, it downloads without modification. -Eric On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Jake Farrell <[email protected]> wrote: > Tried the following on os x, centos, and ubuntu and had no issues and same > results with all > > > jake:~/Downloads/] > mkdir thrift > jake:~/Downloads/] > cd thrift > jake:~/Downloads/thrift]> wget > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/thrift/0.9.0/thrift-0.9.0.tar.gz > jake:~/Downloads/thrift]> tar -xzf thrift-0.9.0.tar.gz > jake:~/Downloads/thrift]> ls thrift-0.9.0 > CHANGES Makefile.am README config.guess configure doc missing > CONTRIBUTORS Makefile.in aclocal config.h configure.ac install-sh test > DISCLAIMER NEWS aclocal.m4 config.hin contrib lib tutorial > LICENSE NOTICE compiler config.sub depcomp ltmain.sh ylwrap > jake:~/Downloads/thrift]> svn co > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/thrift/0.9.0 > jake:~/Downloads/thrift]> cd 0.9.0/ > jake:~/Downloads/thrift/0.9.0] > tar -xzf thrift-0.9.0.tar.gz > jake:~/Downloads/thrift/0.9.0] > ls thrift-0.9.0 > CHANGES Makefile.am README config.guess configure doc missing > CONTRIBUTORS Makefile.in aclocal config.h configure.ac install-sh test > DISCLAIMER NEWS aclocal.m4 config.hin contrib lib tutorial > LICENSE NOTICE compiler config.sub depcomp ltmain.sh ylwrap > > > > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Eric Newton <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > This file is double-compressed. Download it from the web page and check > > yourself: > > > > $ tar -xzvf ~/Downloads/thrift-0.9.0.tar.gz > > tar: This does not look like a tar archive > > tar: Skipping to next header > > tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors > > > > $ gzip -dc ~/Downloads/thrift-0.9.0.tar.gz | tar -tzvf - > > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2012-10-11 21:00 thrift-0.9.0/ > > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2012-10-11 21:01 thrift-0.9.0/contrib/ > > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2012-10-11 21:01 > > thrift-0.9.0/contrib/transport-sample/ > > -rw-r--r-- root/root 2479 2012-10-11 20:58 > > thrift-0.9.0/contrib/transport-sample/README.txt > > ... > > > > -Eric > > > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Jake Farrell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Keith > > > It was made with tar -czf. You can use tar -xzf thrift-0.9.0.tar.gz to > > > uncompress > > > > > > -Jake > > > > > > > > > On Thursday, October 18, 2012, Keith Turner wrote: > > > > > > > When I download the the 0.9.0 release off of the web page, it seems > > > > that its a gziped gzip file. I had to do the following to untar it. > > > > > > > > > > > > $ file thrift-0.9.0.tar.gz > > > > thrift-0.9.0.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix > > > > $ gunzip thrift-0.9.0.tar.gz > > > > $ file thrift-0.9.0.tar > > > > thrift-0.9.0.tar: gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified: Thu > > > > Oct 11 21:01:00 2012, max compression > > > > mv thrift-0.9.0.tar thrift-0.9.0.tar.gz > > > > gunzip thrift-0.9.0.tar.gz > > > > $ file thrift-0.9.0.tar > > > > thrift-0.9.0.tar: POSIX tar archive > > > > > > > > Keith > > > > > > > > > >
