[wp-hackers] wordpress.tar.gz

[Mark Shields]

On 9/26/07, Barry Abrahamson <barry at automattic.com> 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
>
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Thank you.  I pointed this out on the forums [1] but was
misunderstood/ignored.  Glad to see it's fixed.

[1] http://wordpress.org/support/topic/135655

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- Mark Shields