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From: | Daniel Stenberg |
Subject: | Re: [Bug-wget] New wget (1.19.2): Unexpected download behaviour for gzip-compressed tarballs (HTTP-header dependent) |
Date: | Wed, 1 Nov 2017 22:21:38 +0100 (CET) |
User-agent: | Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) |
On Wed, 1 Nov 2017, Tim Rühsen wrote:
Content-Encoding: gzip means that the data has been compressed for transportation purposes only.
That's actually not what it means. There's transfer-encoding for that purpose, but that's not generally supported by clients.
RFC7231 section 3.1.2.1 [*] says this: Content coding values indicate an encoding transformation that has been or can be applied to a representation. [*] = https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-3.1.2.1 -- / daniel.haxx.se
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