[wp-hackers] Plugin zip problem on wordpress.org

[Callum Macdonald]

Jeremy Visser wrote:
> It actually downloads as wordpress-2.3.1.tar.gz if you do it with 
> Firefox. That's because of the Content-Disposition header sent by the 
> web server. Have a look:
>> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=wordpress-2.3.1.tar.gz
> This tells the browser what filename to save the file as, but 
> unfortunately wget doesn't support that header, for some reason. I 
> guess it makes it easier to predict the filename when running it from 
> a script; but I guess if you were scripting it, you'd use the -O 
> argument to force it to have a particular filename.
You can save it with whatever filename you choose, but simply 
downloading latest.tar.gz doesn't tell you which version it is, unless 
you check wp-includes/version.php. If it were to redirect to 2.3.1.tgz 
then you'd know the version you were getting, and could therefore figure 
out which was the latest...

C.