Re: [Lynx-dev] Re: media types

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> Thomas Dickey dixit:
>
> > someone reported a problem with a site that was sending gzip where it
> > stated deflate - seems that was about a year ago.
>
> Couldn’t that be special-cased? Check if a stream advertised as “deflate”

not easily: we'd have to save the data that wasn't decoded somewhere 
(since we're not even looking at the header) and try different 
decompression algorithms on it.

I only knew about that because I captured the file's contents and 
experimented with it.

> starts with 1F 08, handle it as gzip instead. Maybe warn the user, but
> that warning would be at least as annoying as the google invalid cookies…

1F-08 ?  (I'm looking at a gzip'd file beginning 1F-8B).

I do have a to-do item for diffstat to try to guess the decompression
type from piped input...

> I could try to dig out the site unless you have it handy, then hack some
> code to do that, if you desire.
>
> bye,
> //mirabilos
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