[wp-hackers] wordpress.tar.gz

[Omry Yadan]

Thanks for clarifying.


Barry Abrahamson wrote:

> Omry Yadan wrote:
>> great.
>>
>> just curious - why does the user-agent have any effect on the file 
>> the client receives?
>
> So, here's the technical explanation:
>
> It had nothing to do with the User-Agent but with the HTTP request 
> headers that were sent.  By default CLI utilities such as wget and 
> curl dont send any Accept-Encoding headers.  Server side we were 
> sending a 'Content-Encoding: gzip' header for the tar.gz file.  Since 
> there was no 'Accept-Encoding: gzip' header sent by the client, an 
> uncompressed version was delivered to the client.  It's pretty 
> inconvenient (as you noticed) to have a tar.gz file that is uncompressed.
>
> I have removed the Content-Encoding header and replaced it with the 
> correct Content-Type headers to identify the different download types.
>
> Barry
>