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bug#22333: 24.5; EWW downloads invalid compressed tar-files


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: bug#22333: 24.5; EWW downloads invalid compressed tar-files
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2016 11:02:07 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> To reproduce, browse to any web which offers any tar compressed file
>> and hit 'd' to download when cursor is over file URL. Then try to
>> uncompress it:
>> 
>>     /home/inigo/Downloads ⚡ tar xvf filename.tar.gz
>>     tar: This does not look like a tar archive
>>     tar: Skipping to next header
>>     tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
>
> Could it be that the saved tar file is already uncompressed?

I'd rather guess it's compressed twice.

Andreas.

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