[Haskell-cafe] Decompressing and http-enumerator

[Brandon Allbery]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 04:08, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com> wrote:

> So one possible solution is to just add an option to never decompress
> response bodies, but that's a bit of a hack. The real question is:
> what's the correct way to handle these tarballs? Web browsers seem to
> know not to decompress them, but AFAICT http-enumerator is correctly
> following the spec by decompressing. Another possibility is to
>

"Seem to" is pretty much correct; it took years for some browsers to
reliably handle them correctly.  (Anyone else remember Mozilla saving
compressed tarballs uncompressed?)

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