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[Bug-wget] New wget (1.19.2): Unexpected download behaviour for gzip-com
From: |
Jens Schleusener |
Subject: |
[Bug-wget] New wget (1.19.2): Unexpected download behaviour for gzip-compressed tarballs (HTTP-header dependent) |
Date: |
Wed, 1 Nov 2017 17:27:58 +0100 (CET) |
User-agent: |
Alpine 2.20 (LSU 67 2015-01-07) |
Hi,
the new "wget" release 1.19.2 has got a new feature:
"gzip Content-Encoding decompression"
But that feature - at least for my self-conmpiled binary - leads to a
problem if one downloads gzip-compressed tarballs from sites that send for
e.g. an HTTP response header containing lines like
Content-Type: application/x-tar
Content-Encoding: gzip
In that cases wget saves a downloaded gzip-compressed tarball now
decompressed (!) what probably breaks a lot of scripts. Additionally the
tarball is saved nevertheless under a filename with the "tar.gz" extension
and not with the "tar" extension.
Solutions/workarounds may be on affected servers the delivering of an
alternative HTTP header like
Content-Type: application/x-gzip
(or Content-Type: application/octet-stream)
or on the client side the use of the new "wget" option
--compression=none
But maybe it would be better if for such cases wget would revert its
default behaviour to the old one. Or is the described behaviour the
expected one?
Regards
Jens
- [Bug-wget] New wget (1.19.2): Unexpected download behaviour for gzip-compressed tarballs (HTTP-header dependent),
Jens Schleusener <=
- Re: [Bug-wget] New wget (1.19.2): Unexpected download behaviour for gzip-compressed tarballs (HTTP-header dependent), Tim Rühsen, 2017/11/01
- Re: [Bug-wget] New wget (1.19.2): Unexpected download behaviour for gzip-compressed tarballs (HTTP-header dependent), Jens Schleusener, 2017/11/01
- Re: [Bug-wget] New wget (1.19.2): Unexpected download behaviour for gzip-compressed tarballs (HTTP-header dependent), Daniel Stenberg, 2017/11/01
- Re: [Bug-wget] New wget (1.19.2): Unexpected download behaviour for gzip-compressed tarballs (HTTP-header dependent), Tim Rühsen, 2017/11/02
- Re: [Bug-wget] New wget (1.19.2): Unexpected download behaviour for gzip-compressed tarballs (HTTP-header dependent), James Cloos, 2017/11/03
- Re: [Bug-wget] New wget (1.19.2): Unexpected download behaviour for gzip-compressed tarballs (HTTP-header dependent), Tim Rühsen, 2017/11/03
- Re: [Bug-wget] New wget (1.19.2): Unexpected download behaviour for gzip-compressed tarballs (HTTP-header dependent), James Cloos, 2017/11/03
- Re: [Bug-wget] New wget (1.19.2): Unexpected download behaviour for gzip-compressed tarballs (HTTP-header dependent), Jens Schleusener, 2017/11/03
- Re: [Bug-wget] New wget (1.19.2): Unexpected download behaviour for gzip-compressed tarballs (HTTP-header dependent), Daniel Stenberg, 2017/11/03
- Re: [Bug-wget] New wget (1.19.2): Unexpected download behaviour for gzip-compressed tarballs (HTTP-header dependent), Tim Rühsen, 2017/11/03