[Savannah-help-public] [sr #104903] Wrong Content-Type for binaries

[Larry Jones]

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                 Summary: Wrong Content-Type for binaries
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: scjones
            Submitted on: Thu 12/01/05 at 15:51
                Category: Project download area (non-GNU)
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                Severity: 4 - Important
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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        Platform Version: None
             Open/Closed: Open

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Details:

Our download area contains a number of gzipped executable files (e.g.,
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/cvs/binary/feature/hppa-hpux/cvs-1.12.10-HP.gz).
When getting these files, the web server HTTP response headers include
Content-Type: text/plain (which is not correct) and Content-Encoding: x-gzip
(which causes most browsers to automatically unzip the file, frequently
without removing the .gz from the file name, which seriously confuses users
and makes the related signature files useless since they're for the gzipped
data. We really need these files to have an application/octet-stream content
type and no content encoding.



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