[Haskell-cafe] Help needed with apache config for hackage

[Duncan Coutts]

On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 22:39 +1100, George Pollard wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 10:58 +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > Does anyone have any experience with apache configuration, particularly
> > mime types and handling browser quirks and would like to help us with an
> > issue we have on hackage?
> > 
> > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/498
> > 
> > The problem is described in the ticket but basically IE6 gets confused
> > by the Content-Type and Content-Encoding and ends up saving ".tar.gz"
> > files with the wrong name ".tar.tar".
> > 
> > We need help working out how to configure apache to use a workaround and
> > with testing that the solution actually works.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Duncan
> 
> Currently the browser receives:
> 
> > HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> > Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:15:22 GMT
> > Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Debian)
> > Last-Modified: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:55:57 GMT
> > ETag: "38c010-46d-b361bd40"
> > Accept-Ranges: bytes
> > Content-Length: 1133
> > Content-Type: application/x-tar
> > Content-Encoding: x-gzip
> 
> You could try adding a Content-Disposition header to specify a file name:
> 
>   Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=APackage.tar.gz
> 
> In Apache you can (apparently [1],[2]) do it like this:
> 
>   RewriteRule "^packages/archive/[^/]+/[^/]+/(.+)$" - [env=pkgname:$1]
>   Header set Content-Disposition "attachment; filename=\"%{pkgname}e\"" env=pkgname 
> 
> [1]: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#files
> [2]: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Server_Software/Web_Servers/Apache/Q_23054616.html

Can we do that just for one user agent? I don't think we want to use
non-standard stuff in general. Apparently Content-Disposition is not in
the official HTTP spec, but IE is known to follow it.

Duncan