Re: LYNX-DEV tgz is changed to tar

[Klaus Weide]

On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Kent Robotti wrote:

> When i download something with a .tgz extension, the extension
> is changed to .tar before it's saved to disk.

Please give an example for a "something" where that happens.

If it is a resource ("file") identified by a HTTP URL, what Lynx knows
about a file's content type (and possibly compression) comes from the HTTP
headers.  Unfortunately those are often set wrong, or less than optimal.
Try -head or the ']' key.

> This is with lynx2-7-1 + fotemodes 9-5-97 on linux.

The development code is trying to be a bit less aggressive in changing a
file suffix, in the case when the suffix would indicate compression but
the headers don't.  But in any case Lynx is only trying to give a
reasonable suggestion for how to name the local copy, you can still change
the name to something else.

   Klaus

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