On 2011/04/07 15:03, Martynas Venckus wrote:
> 
> As much as I like it, I'm not sure we'll be able to enable this by
> default, though.  There are quite some misconfigured servers out
> there, like:
>       http://elinks.cz/download/elinks-0.11.7.tar.gz
> 
> This one incorrectly sends:
>       Content-Encoding: gzip
> 
> While it doesn't actually compress it (twice).  So the client
> decompresses it, and you end up actually having decompressed TAR
> called 'elinks-0.11.7.tar.gz'.
> 

yes, this causes a big problem for ports distfile fetching.

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