On 30 Jan 2001, at 14:35, Akinori MUSHA wrote:
> At Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:26:01 +1300 (NZDT),
> Dan Langille wrote:
> > I've noticed that cvsweb.cgi sometimes gives me GZIP and sometimes not. I
> > tracked down a fix for my needs, but would like some feedback please.
> >
> > The problem arose when FreshPorts old me it couldn't do anything with a
> > Makefile it had just obtained (via fetch), so I went to look. What I
> > found was a garbled Makefile. Actually, it was GZIP'd, not ASCII.
> >
> > $ fetch -o Makefile
> >
>http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/www/mnoGoSearch-current/Makefile?rev=1.3
> > Receiving Makefile: 0 Kbytes
> > 897 bytes transferred in 0.0 seconds (603.71 Kbytes/s)
> >
> > $ file Makefile
> > Makefile: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Tue Jan 30
> > 14:00:38 2001, max speed, os: Unix
> >
> >
> > So then I started experimenting, and check the web interface. Then I used
> > this:
> >
> > $ fetch -o Makefile
> >
>http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/ports/www/mnoGoSearch-current/Makefile?rev=1.3
> > Receiving Makefile: 1 Kbytes
> > 1799 bytes transferred in 0.0 seconds (1241.55 Kbytes/s)
> >
> > $ file Makefile
> > Makefile: ASCII text
> >
> > Which is what one would expect.
> >
> > Why does one give the expected results and the other doesn't? I expected
> > both to give the same.
>
> Hmm, this reminds me of the transparent HTTP proxy issue. I suspect
> an HTTP proxy server is between your box and www.FreeBSD.org and it
> had a cache of the former page and didn't for the latter.
OK. Explain this. When we telnet to port 80 and fetch it, we don't get
gzip. When we use lynx, it doesn't come back gzip'd (does lynx know
gzip?).
[dan@lists:~/temp] $ lynx -dump
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/www/mnoGoSearch-
current/Makefile?rev=H
EAD > Makefile
[dan@lists:~/temp] $ file Makefile
Makefile: ASCII text
[dan@lists:~/temp] $ fetch -o Makefile
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/www/mnoGoSearch-
current/Makefil
e?rev=HEAD
Receiving Makefile: 2 Kbytes
2082 bytes transferred in 0.0 seconds (1233.01 Kbytes/s)
[dan@lists:~/temp] $ file Makefile
Makefile: ASCII text
[dan@lists:~/temp] $ fetch -o Makefile
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/ports/www/mnoGoSe
arch-curr
ent/Makefile?rev=HEAD
Receiving Makefile: 1 Kbytes
1029 bytes transferred in 0.0 seconds (716.23 Kbytes/s)
[dan@lists:~/temp] $ file Makefile
Makefile: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Wed Jan 31
10:47:57 2001, max speed, os: Unix
go figure...
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