[38064] in Kerberos
Re: the file type of krb5-1.15.1 is wrong
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Taylor Yu)
Fri Sep 8 13:55:30 2017
From: Taylor Yu <tlyu@mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <717c2c80-054a-60c9-4977-173fd8c4a5d8@mit.edu> (Greg Hudson's
message of "Fri, 8 Sep 2017 13:14:35 -0400")
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 17:55:12 +0000
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Cc: Prime <zhishupp@vip.qq.com>, kerberos <kerberos@mit.edu>
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu> writes:
> On 09/08/2017 12:30 PM, Prime wrote:
>> http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/dist/krb5/1.15/krb5-1.15.1.tar.gz
>>
>>
>> it's actually a tar file but tar.gz
>
> I think that's an issue with web.mit.edu, although I'm not familiar
> enough with HTTP to know immediately what the problem is. If I fetch
> that URL with wget, I receive a gzipped tar file as expected. If I
> fetch it with Chrome or Firefox, it seems to get transparently
> uncompressed and lands as an uncompressed tar file without changing the
> suffix.
It's possible that something changed in the web.mit.edu configuration to
start sending "Content-Encoding: x-gzip" for .tar.gz files where it
wasn't before. (I could be misremembering whether it was doing so
before.)
$ curl -I 'http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/dist/krb5/1.15/krb5-1.15.1.tar.gz'
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache/1.3.41 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.8.31 OpenSSL/0.9.8j
Last-Modified: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 16:04:09 GMT
ETag: "7f643ca-8f0f32-58b993f9"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 9375538
X-Cnection: close
Content-Type: application/x-tar
Content-Encoding: x-gzip
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 17:50:18 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
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