Is there ANY simple, no-cleverness httpd that just does static content and cgi and just works?
Oh yes. But so many servers get this wrong that all sorts of build scripts are going to break.
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The wget change totally violates "be liberal in what you accept".
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Servers got this right. Decompressing like this is what your web browser does
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Some browsers do it, not all. I forget which ones. But I've seen lots of tarballs that get corrupted by one but not another, not (old) wget.
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All browsers do this! This is how content encoding works!
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Really, they don't. I'm not sure why but it's probably this:https://twitter.com/pikhq/status/925751021812506624 …
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Chrome certainly doesn't, as evidenced by the fact that running file on the download returns 'posix tar archive'
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Honestly, how many do? If you try to download a file like that with a web browser it should be acting like wget...
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Huh, guess not. I assume web browsers special-case ".gz" extensions or something.
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Yeah they probably special-cased it because this server bug was/is so widespread.
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When I download your archives with chrome the .tar.gz is actually a plain tar
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Huh, didn't happen here. Also Chrome. Weeeeird.
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How did you test?
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