Re: Caching MS-compressed files

On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Kurt Heine wrote:

KH} Hello all.
KH} I have a small problem with the way that squid caches files. I have a
KH} file called readme.tx_ which is a ms-compressed file. When squid
KH} downloads this file it downloads it as a text file (ascii file). Now
KH} this causes the file to be corrupted once downloaded from the proxy
KH} server. I added an entry for this particular but this will happen for
KH} any ms-compressed files where they substitute the last letter of the
KH} extension for the '_' character. Does anyone know how to fix the above
KH} problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Set the MIME type to an appropriate compression encoding type or define
the MIME type as "application/OCTET-STREAM".

                             Merton Campbell Crockett
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Received on Mon Jan 24 2000 - 23:02:07 MST