CONTRIBUTORS
author Ry4an Brase <ry4an-hg@ry4an.org>
Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:56:08 -0500
branchstable
changeset 12570 a72c5ff1260c
parent 5514 c29efd272395
permissions -rw-r--r--
Correct Content-Type header values for archive downloads. The content type for both .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 downloads was application/x-tar, which is correct for .tar files when no Content-Encoding is present, but is not correct for .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 files unless Content-Encoding is set to gzip or x-bzip2, respectively. However, setting Content-Encoding causes browsers to undo that encoding during download, when a .gz or .bz2 file is usually the desired artifact. Omitting the Content-Encoding header is preferred to avoid having browsers uncompress non-render-able files. Additionally, the Content-Disposition line indicates a final desired filename with .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 extension which makes providing a Content-Encoding header inappropriate. With the current configuration browsers (Chrome and Firefox thus far) are registering the application/x-tar Content-Type and not .tar extension and appending that extension, yielding filename.tar.gz.tar as a final on-disk artifact. This was originally reported here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3753659 I've changed the .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 Content-Type values to application/x-gzip and application/x-bzip2, respectively. Which yields correctly named download artifacts on Firefox, Chrome, and IE.

[This file is here for historical purposes, all recent contributors
should appear in the changelog directly]

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea at suse.de>
Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de>
Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack at libero.it>
Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix at mulix.org>
Mikael Berthe <mikael at lilotux.net>
Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com>
Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com>
Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml at free.fr>
Jake Edge <jake at edge2.net>
Michael Fetterman <michael.fetterman at intel.com>
Edouard Gomez <ed.gomez at free.fr>
Eric Hopper <hopper at omnifarious.org>
Alecs King <alecsk at gmail.com>
Volker Kleinfeld <Volker.Kleinfeld at gmx.de>
Vadim Lebedev <vadim at mbdsys.com>
Christopher Li <hg at chrisli.org>
Chris Mason <mason at suse.com>
Colin McMillen <mcmillen at cs.cmu.edu>
Wojciech Milkowski <wmilkowski at interia.pl>
Chad Netzer <chad.netzer at gmail.com>
Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>
Vicent SeguĂ­ Pascual <vseguip at gmail.com>
Sean Perry <shaleh at speakeasy.net>
Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh at gmail.com>
Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.freenix.fr>
Alexander Schremmer <alex at alexanderweb.de>
Arun Sharma <arun at sharma-home.net>
Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jeffpc at optonline.net>
Kevin Smith <yarcs at qualitycode.com>
TK Soh <teekaysoh at yahoo.com>
Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm at gorzow.mm.pl>
Samuel Tardieu <sam at rfc1149.net>
K Thananchayan <thananck at yahoo.com>
Andrew Thompson <andrewkt at aktzero.com>
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il>
Rafael Villar Burke <pachi at mmn-arquitectos.com>
Tristan Wibberley <tristan at wibberley.org>
Mark Williamson <mark.williamson at cl.cam.ac.uk>