My browser is definitely sending Accept-Encoding:gzip. So, I don't have an explanation.
-tk On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 6:29 AM, Thomas Keffer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 6:22 AM, mwall <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Saturday, November 5, 2016 at 9:00:51 AM UTC-4, Graham Buxton wrote: >>> >>> I was installing on a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian. I was using the >>> Chromium browser to read the Docs, and just clicked the Download file link >>> in the instructions page. Then copied the tar command from the instruction >>> page and pasted into the command window. >>> >> >> so it sounds like chrome-on-ubuntu is trying to be helpful by gunzipping >> whatever you download, similar to default configurations of edge on windows >> and safari on macos. >> >> > Maybe. Watching it download, it looks to me that it's downloading the > full 3.9 MB, not the compressed 1.1 MB. I think the decompression is > happening on the server. > > My guess of what's happening is that if the browser does not indicate it > can handle compressed content (by setting > > Accept-Encoding: gzip > ) > , the server decompresses the file. > > Let me test this by using Curl with and without the Accept-Encoding header. > > -tk > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
