While it is unexpected, what is wrong with just serving a tar file and redirecting a foo.gz request to a foo request? Why should a user want to have a .gz file after downloading?
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 1:38 PM <mhhc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Say you have this foo.tar.gz, > served as /foo.tar.gz with a content-encoding: gzip, > the browser would in fact decode the gzip stream and serve a tar file. > > I guess, it is unexpected, > the content-encoding should probably be application/octet-stream > to instruct the browser to download the file, > for correctness the content-type should be application/x-gzip > > Now lets say you are serving pre-compressed some.css.gz, > you d better serve it as some.css, > when the request comes in, > check the accept-encoding header of the request, > - if it says gzip, set the response header content-encoding to gz, > read the gz file straight. > - if the accept header of the request says to not handle gzip, > serve an uncompressed version of this gz (maybe you read it straight form > the file system too?). > > in both case, set the response content-type appropriately for the file > type (in that case text/css, and certainly not application/x-gzip) > > > On Saturday, January 14, 2017 at 7:08:55 PM UTC+1, Anmol Sethi wrote: > > Say in my http fileserver, I have /static/foo.tar.gz. Should my > fileserver be serving it as /static/foo.tarwith content-encoding: gzip always > or should it be served as /static/foo.tar.gz with content-type: gzip? > > Change foo.tar.gz with any file that ends in .gz. My question boils down > to whether or not every .gz file should be served with content-encoding: > gzip? I know it's fine for html/css/js but I'm wondering if there are > some files, where i should be serving them with content-type: gzip? As > in, why not just always use content-encoding: gzip and strip off the > extension? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
