GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 650360
Decompresses .gz files but doesn't change suffix
Last modified: 2011-05-17 10:13:24 UTC
epiphany-3.0.2-1.fc15.x86_64 webkitgtk3-1.4.0-1.fc15.x86_64 1. Click on http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/gst-pulse/gst-pulse-0.9.7.tar.gz 2. Get an error from file-roller that the file isn't gzipped 3. Check the file: $ file gst-pulse-0.9.7.tar.gz gst-pulse-0.9.7.tar.gz: tar archive It should be a tar.gz file instead.
This is because 0pointer.de is incorrectly configured and is sending "Content-Encoding: gzip" for that file, which means that it is claiming that "gst-pulse-0.9.7.tar.gz" is what you get *after* ungzipping the HTTP response. It should not be setting that header. This sort of misconfiguration is common and other browsers hack around it. I just haven't gotten around to figuring out whether they do it by sniffing or by file extension or what. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 613361 ***