On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 01:25:19PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 6:09 PM, ProgAndy <admin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > There may be a transparent proxy in your routing chain that strips > > compression in order to run a virus scan. > > The server sends these headers for haskell-core.db > > ( curl -I http://xsounds.org/~haskell/core/x86_64/haskell-core.db ) > > > > Content-Type: application/x-tar > > Content-Encoding: x-gzip > > > > It might work as expected without a Content-Encoding header: > > > > Content-Type: application/x-gzip > > Yes, you are probably right. I just didn't think anyone would > actually configure a proxy to deliver the un-gzipped result to the > client. That sounds like a way to break all kinds of things! > > I'll ask around here to see if this is the case. > > I don't have direct control over the server where the repo is, but I > might be able to convince the admins that it's a bad idea to put > Content-Encoding into reponses. Now after an upgrade of Apache by the administrator the Content-Encoding header is gone. Also I found out that there is a possibility to control mime types via .htaccess files. I put the following into one AddTypw application/octet-stream .gz and now the Content-Type is modified too. Hopefully that'll fix it, but I'll have to test when I get to work tomorrow. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It’s less predictable, it’s more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee. -- Steve McConnell, Code Complete
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