On 09/03/09 15:45, Barry Finkel wrote:
I save it on my desktop, and when I look at the file, I see that it is a plain text file. It is not a gzip'd file. Why? Thanks.
I'm betting that Apache is automatically decompressing the file and sending it to you.
Apache (and a few other web servers) know how to serve up content that has been compressed on disk to save space. It can be configured to send either the compressed or decompressed content.
The thing that I'm not sure about is how Apache will behave (if it's working with compression) if it has two files, 2009-August.txt and 2009-August.txt.gz.
Another thing that may be messing with you is that Firefox may be reporting (via HTTP header) that it can accept and deal with compressed content and IE not doing so.
Unless someone else comes up with any thing else, I think I would go to an Apache group and re-pose your scenario (of the compressed and uncompressed files) and see if they can help shed some more light on the subject. Of course you can do some digging in Apache's documentation and probably find some more information too.
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