Thompson, David <dthomps...@worcester.edu> writes: >> “Content-Type: .gz” is what trips up “guix download”. What follows >> “Content-Type:” should be a mime type and I suppose “.gz” is not a valid >> mime type. Would it make sense for the HTTP client to be a little more >> tolerant about this? > > No, upstream needs to fix their invalid Content-Type header. We've > had this problem a few times, most recently with rubygems.org, and in > all cases we've gotten upstream to fix it. Strict header parsing can > seem like an issue at times, but it's really a very good feature that > the rest of the world seems to ignore. [0]
I wonder what a correct Content-Type header would look like in this case. I would like to submit a helpful report containing what I got and what it should have been. However, this is independent from the patch itself where I’m using a git reference. ~~ Ricardo
