[rescue] sufreeware

[Kevin Loch]

Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 12:25:29PM -0500, Kevin Loch wrote:
> > Does anyone know why sunfreeware has ftp gzip enabled?  From the
> > website,
> > netscape requests the uncompressed version of files, greatly increasing
> > consumed bandwidth and download time.  Why don't they just serve
> > the files via http for http clients?
> 
> They dont - your'e always downloading .tar.gz files, but sometimes netscape
> doesent put the .gz on the end.  Just rename them.
> 


-rw-------   1 kloch    admin      68608 Jun  4  2001
traceroute-1.4a5-sol7-sparc-local
kl.opnsys.com:/usr/local/install% cp traceroute* tmp.gz
kl.opnsys.com:/usr/local/install% gzip -d tmp.gz

gzip: tmp.gz: not in gzip format

Nope,unless netscape is decompressing it, it's downloading it
uncompressed.

KL