From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Robert Collins" To: Subject: Re: AW: AW: AW: documentation archive Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 08:43:00 -0000 Message-id: <007e01c06b6c$3f19a860$e69460cb@workhorse> References: <17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E1A1@IIS000> X-SW-Source: 2000-12/msg01004.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernard Dautrevaux" To: "'Earnie Boyd'" ; "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" ; Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 3:05 AM Subject: RE: AW: AW: AW: documentation archive > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Earnie Boyd [ mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com ] > > Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 5:11 PM > > To: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc); cygwin@sources.redhat.com > > Subject: RE: AW: AW: AW: documentation archive > > > > > Are you sure of that ? I was thinking that unrecognized files were always > transfered as binary data and BTW, I'm not sure that IE5 has any knowledge > of a '.gz' suffix :-) > > Note that as windows FTP client are concerned they effectively try to use > the suffix to choose between binary and text format while UNIX clients > ususally ALWAYS use text format unless explicitely directed to binary mode > :-) > > Regards, > > Bernard > Check out rfc 2616 - Ie 5.5 (possibly 5.0) supports content-encoding, allowing it to download any file in a compressed format and decompress to the users chosen filetype on arrival. So .tar.gz becomes .tar. However it is at least slightly broken - it doesn't rename it (default will save as .tar.gz still) and it should only decompress when the HTTP server send a Content-Encoding header AND a different mime type header... Rob -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple