[Lynx-dev] Lynx Displaying as dot gz instead of an mp3?

[russellbell]

        Quoth Chime Hart: 'several times each week I download older
news programming from this site.  Over the last week, instead of it
actually saving as an mp3, it suggests a .gz, actually in the
progress, its an m4a.gz an actual url for this mp3 is
https://pastdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/News-April-26-1994.mp3
On my local machine if I run that through lynx, it begins playing, but
on shellworld its showing a dot gz. If I run a file command on these,
they show as normal mp3s. I suppose in the future I can backspace over
.gz'
        Beginning with the latest version lynx has been saving HTML
files but adding the .gz suffix though it saves them non-gzipped.  Mr
Dickey wrote:

        'hmm - that might be due to the server-side compression fix
(will see). 
        '(The suggested filename - which you can edit - depends on how
lynx sees the remote filename).'

        I noted that the temporary file in /tmp/lynxXXXXlvsYpN (last 6
characters random) *is* gzipped.

        lynx has to rely on the sender to gzip files, so this doesn't
happen with files from servers that don't gzip.

russell bell