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From: Stephen J. Turnbull [mailto:turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp]
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2021, 18:28 UTC
> In fact, most modern systems will negotiate compressed streams, so if
> you provide a .txt to your webserver, the client will tell the server
> "hey, I know how to gunzip", the server will automatically gzip, the
> client gunzip, and you know nothing about it except that you have text
> onscreen.
>
> It's unclear what the system will do if offered a .txt.gz file. If
> the server is smart, it might say
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; name=whatever.txt <-- note: no .gz
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: gzip
>
> and the end result is as above. But it's not obviously a good idea
> for the server to second-guess the admin that way.
>
> It's plausible that if the server just sends it as a binary, the
> client will say, "oh, they gzipped it on purpose, I should treat it as
> a file and save it", or it might say, "I know what a .txt is, and go
> ahead and transparently ungzip it. Clients are reliably unreliable as
> a class -- some users want Do What I Mean, some what Do What I Say,
> and different clients will cater to different users.
>
> Bottom line: if you're sure you want your .txt files treated as plain
> text and displayed as conveniently as possible, ungzip them! Very
> likely you won't use any more bandwidth (and by the way, modern
> servers tend to cache that gzipped blob in case somebody asks for it
> again, so on-the-fly compression doesn't necessarily waste hours of
> CPU).
>
> If for some reason you'd prefer that they be gzipped at both ends,
> that's probably more work to guarantee.
Thanks very much for this Steve. The learning from you guys never stops :-)
And "unzip" was the pick at of the day.
Best,
Mark
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