On Apr 7, 2005 12:53 AM, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
The new dumps are compressed with gzip as it's faster than bzip2 (though bzip2 compresses better).
Ah-ha. Thanks.
Your browser might be uncompressing it for you (naughty browser!)
Hmm, the content-type setting is somewhat suboptimal -
dumps.wikimedia.org sends: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Encoding: gzip
Whereas most servers sending .gz files send: Content-Type: application/x-gzip Content-Encoding: x-gzip
A brief check shows Firefox 1.02 and Opera 7.52u2 and whatever XP's latest version of IE6 all show the ungzipped content inline when sent the text/plain content-type. I guess a tweak to httpd.conf is in order.