Re: lynx-dev zlib doesn't work (here) with remote files

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:04:58AM -0200, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 01:44:31PM -0600, Klaus Weide wrote:
> > On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 12:55:25PM -0200, Frederic L. W. Meunier wrote:
> > > > Hi. I don't know if it's related, but some time ago I removed
> > > > compress from my system since gunzip worked with .Z files and
> > > > I don't intend to create any.
> > 
> > I cannot see how removing "compress" would influence the working
> > (or not) for gzip'd files in any way.
> > 
> > > > I was using Lynx 2.8.5dev.2 and it downloaded compressed
> > > > files from Apache + mod_gzip. For some reason it doesn't work
> > > > anymore with remote files, but it can uncompress local files.
> > 
> > Are the HTTP headers correct, i.e. is there a
> >   Content-encoding: gzip   (or: x-gzip)

If you configure --disable-dired, the executable won't call /bin/compress
anyway (it's only used in the dired support).  So I don't see either how
it would affect remote files, unless it's related to your mime types.

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