Mirror unpacks distfile before sending

[Bill Cole]

On 4 Apr 2019, at 12:45, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via 
macports-users wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 11:11 PM Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> 
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 06:34, <macports at raf.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> it's wierd. i'm seeing the same Content-Encoding header
>>> but curl doesn't un-gzip the download for me. neither
>>> /usr/bin/curl (7.43.0) nor /opt/local/bin/curl (7.64.1).
>>> neither does wget. i wonder what the difference is.
>>
>> Probably not relevant for this, but some time ago I also had the same
>> issue of auto-extracting tarballs; I thought it was the firewall 
>> (some
>> content / antivirus checking software there) as I only had this
>> problem in my office; everywhere else it worked as expected.
>>
>> Mojca
>>
>
> That *is* relevant.  My Mac is behind an institutional firewall, so 
> this
> might be aggravating the problem.  Also I am not able to duplicate the
> headers as Ryan showed using curl -I, not with the facebook.net URL.  
> I
> will ask our network admins about this.
>
> It sounds like Raf and Mojca are reporting correct, compressed 
> downloads
> from this site, and I am the only one so far that has actually 
> reported
> incorrect, uncompressed downloads.  (I checked; my mac gets the same
> malfunction with all .tar.gz files from facebook.net, not just the 
> groff
> file.)  Does anyone else here get the incorrect, uncompressed result, 
> which
> is 17 Mb rather than the expected 4 Mb?

Nope.

Does ~/.curlrc exist? If so, what's in it?
I can reproduce the behavior with the "--compress" option on the command 
line or in the .curlrc file.


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