From: lgdutra AT originet DOT com DOT br (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Leandro_Guimar=E3es_Faria_Corcete_Dutra?=)
Subject: Re: Apologies
11 Mar 1998 23:21:57 -0800
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To: "Michael Traffanstead" <traff AT myriad DOT net>
Cc: "gnuwin32" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

>From: Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra <lgdutra AT originet DOT com DOT br>
>To: webmaster AT tiac DOT net <webmaster AT tiac DOT net>
>Cc: gnuwin32 <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>
>Date: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 3:45 AM
>
>
>>>Sorry about this.  My ISP is claiming that I shouldn't be using .gz
>>>formats on my files but should be using some standard format like
>>>.zip.  Files ending in .gz are misidentified by their HTTP server.
>>>
>>>I will probably do that soon, but in the mean time, I'm trying
various
>>>routes to see if they will fix the problem.
>>>
>>>If anyone would like to offer suggestions to the webmaster AT tiac DOT net
on
>>>how to solve this problem, feel free.
>>
>>    Please add:
>>application/x-gzip              gz
>>
>>    to your mime types file (usually /etc/http/mime.types).
>>
>>    If you don't know how to do it, you shouldn't be in the business!!
>>It's a shame to have suggested to a customer he should change his
files
>>to a inferior format (less portable, less compression, takes longer to
>>compress) instead of correctly configuring your httpd. "gz" is a
>>standard on Internet, should be accepted by any site, and is the
better
>>compressor around -- that is, until we get bzip to be a standard!
>
>
>Before you start questioning peoples' calling in life, you might want
to
>consider
>that gz/tgz are also being used for vrml pages and that's why they are
not
>handled properly on some browsers ( ie and mozilla both ship with gz
defined
>as a binary file ).
>
>traff
>
>

    Yes, probably you're right... sorry... I shouldn't be harsh. I'm
cc-ing this because where I come from a public offence commands a public
apology.

    Having apologized, we're talking servers, not browsers... all right?


Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra  lgdutra AT originet DOT com DOT br
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