[rescue] sufreeware

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Tue Feb 19 11:49:20 CST 2002


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.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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Austin, TX



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