Re: [Haskell-cafe] Decompressing and http-enumerator

Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 04:08, Michael Snoyman wrote:

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So one possible solution is to just add an option to never decompress response bodies, but that's a bit of a hack. The real question is: what's the correct way to handle these tarballs? Web browsers seem to know not to decompress them, but AFAICT http-enumerator is correctly following the spec by decompressing. Another possibility is to

"Seem to" is pretty much correct; it took years for some browsers to reliably handle them correctly. (Anyone else remember Mozilla saving compressed tarballs uncompressed?)

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