[cmake-developers] cmake-3.3.0-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz on download page is not gzipped

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Mon Aug 3 14:05:43 EDT 2015


On 07/31/2015 09:54 AM, Nils Gladitz wrote:
> The HTTP response for cmake-3.3.0.tar.gz does contain:
> 	Content-Encoding: x-gzip

Thanks for pointing this out.

> Which I think does tell clients that they should decompress to get the 
> actual content which is declared to be of 
> Content-Type:"application/x-gzip"; this is I think incorrect unless the 
> HTTP server compresses the .tar.gz once more with gzip before delivery.

Our admins have fixed the configuration on the server so that there
is no Content-Encoding header for .Z and .gz files anymore.  I think
that configuration was there by mistake.

-Brad



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