Re: Squid and Communicator 4.5 misbehaviour

On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 11:22:56PM +0100, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> Andreas Jung wrote:
> >
> > I am using Communicator 4.5 very often to download .tar.gz files from
> > any FTP server. When I bypass Squid the file is written correctly
> > on my disk. However when I use Squid the is written uncompressed
> > on the disk and under Windows the file is written with linefeeds at the
> > end. In such a case I must convert the .tar file to ISO-Latin-1 format.
> > Only with this trick I am able to untar the file.
>
>
> Netscape on Windows seems to have some very bad habits with compressed
> files. As a workaround (if your are using Squid 2) edit
> squid/etc/mime.conf, and add +download on the line defining .gz
> extension. Then click in the binary download icon for any .gz encoded
> file.
>
> What Squid 2 does when it sees a .tar.gz file is
>
> MIME content encoding: gzip
> MIME content type: application/x-tar
> FTP transfer mode: I (Image, or binary transfer mode).
>
>
> I don't remember exactly what Squid 1.x does, but it should be something
> similar to this...
>

I'm talking about Squid 2.1.

Andreas

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