[cmake-developers] cmake-3.3.0-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz on download page is not gzipped

Radovan Bast radovan.bast at gmail.com
Mon Aug 3 17:55:48 EDT 2015


thank you for the good catch and for fixing this!
now the download behaves as expected on my Chrome
version. thank you again and keep it up!
  radovan

On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 8:05 PM Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:

> On 07/31/2015 09:54 AM, Nils Gladitz wrote:
> > The HTTP response for cmake-3.3.0.tar.gz does contain:
> >       Content-Encoding: x-gzip
>
> Thanks for pointing this out.
>
> > Which I think does tell clients that they should decompress to get the
> > actual content which is declared to be of
> > Content-Type:"application/x-gzip"; this is I think incorrect unless the
> > HTTP server compresses the .tar.gz once more with gzip before delivery.
>
> Our admins have fixed the configuration on the server so that there
> is no Content-Encoding header for .Z and .gz files anymore.  I think
> that configuration was there by mistake.
>
> -Brad
>
>
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