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Re: setup 2.427 runtime error
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, David A. Cobb wrote:
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Max Bowsher wrote:
>
> > David A. Cobb wrote:
> >
> > > I downloaded the .tar.bz2 file, which is probably meant to be the
> > > source. However, bunzip2 says it is not a (valid) bzip2 file.
> > > In my experience, this is often caused by the server passing an
> > > incorrect MIME type from which the http download module of my browser
> > > (Mozilla Firefox) infers incorrectly that the file is text.
> >
> > It *is* the source. Mozilla 1.7.2 handles it correctly.
> >
> > Server headers:
> > [snip]
> >
> > I suspect Firefox may have unhelpfully un-bzip2ed it dynamically, but not
> > removed the .bz2 suffix.
>
> Firefox doesn't do this, but the mirror itself may have.
> Igor
Follow-up to my previous.
The HTTP headers are inside the file! Must be the browser, except that I
download bz2's all the time and this doesn't happen.
Did you, by chance, use "wget -o"? That would put the headers into the
file. FWIW, I just tried this[*] with Firefox 0.9.3 -- no problems.
Igor
[*] By "this" I mean "download
http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.431.tar.bz2";
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