Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] .tar.gz.tar downloads (Was: Win32 generation toolchain...)

[Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 10:35:59AM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> >| >to unpack it with a tool he had. He had to rename it to
> >| >"ethereal-0.10.0a.tar.gz" for his tool to work.

> >| That Mozilla appended another .tar to the filename is a bug I
> >| experienced at other places too.
> >| I'm not sure if this is a Mozilla issue, or a problem with the MIME
> >| settings on the server.
> >| See 3) for the tool question.

> >Don't worry: this seems to happen with MSIE too, but the file is then
> >named .tar.tar.

> That indicates to me, thats somethings wrong with the server 
> configuration (propably of the MIME types?).

What you are talking about is the standard Apache config, as it has been
since time bagan (or something close to that): Files ending in
.tar, .tgz and .tar.gz are flagged as application/x-tar (see below)

Doing an Open/Save with Konqueror:

GET /distribution/ethereal-0.10.0a.tar.gz HTTP/1.1
Connection: Keep-Alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; Linux)
Referer: http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/
Accept: text/html, image/jpeg, image/png, text/*, image/*, */*
Accept-Encoding: x-gzip, x-deflate, gzip, deflate, identity
Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1, utf-8;q=0.5, *;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en
Host: www.ethereal.com

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 10:08:09 GMT
Server: Apache
Last-Modified: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 18:14:31 GMT
ETag: "3b160-54c685-9cae8fc0"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 5555845
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=99
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: application/x-tar

Why Browsers on Windows feel that they have to change the suffix in case
they think it doesn't match the content-type is beyond me. So if you really
think that is a misconfiguration, you should take it out with the Apache
developers.

  Ciao
      Jörg

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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
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