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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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Subject:	Re: AW: AW: AW: documentation archive
Date:	Fri, 22 Dec 2000 05:36:57 +1300
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernard Dautrevaux" <Dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com>
To: "'Earnie Boyd'" <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>; "Larry Hall (RFK Partners,
Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>; <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 3:05 AM
Subject: RE: AW: AW: AW: documentation archive


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 5:11 PM
> > To: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc); cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT 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


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