Re: Downloads on lua.org corrupted

[Ian Scott <ian@...>]

On 03/21/2014 11:04 AM, Ian Scott wrote:
> I suspect that the web server is doing an extra gzip compression of 
> the content if the browser presents an Accept-Encoding:gzip header. It 
> looks like the server is responding with a Content-Encoding:gzip 
> header, which means the browser should decompress it on the fly, but 
> it looks like that's not happening for whatever reason. Disabling gzip 
> compression of non-plain text MIME types on the server should fix the 
> problem.

Apparently most browsers not do the decompression because of a 
workaround of a bug where servers would erroneously serve .gz files with 
the headers "Content-Encoding: gzip" and "Content-Type: application/gzip".

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448240
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-dev/200207.mbox/%3C3D2D4E76.4010502@talex.com.pl%3E
http://src.chromium.org/chrome/branches/250/src/net/base/filter.cc

Luiz, I'm not sure why you're not seeing this behavior across any of 
your browsers. In any case, setting the server to not compress .gz files 
should fix it for everyone.

Ian