Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:35:03 +0900 From: "Akinori MUSHA" <knu@iDaemons.org> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, knu@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gzip and cvsweb.cgi Message-ID: <86wvbd38mw.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0101301409530.6394-100000@xeon.unixathome.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0101301409530.6394-100000@xeon.unixathome.org>
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At Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:26:01 +1300 (NZDT), Dan Langille wrote: > I've noticed that cvsweb.cgi sometimes gives me GZIP and sometimes not. I > tracked down a fix for my needs, but would like some feedback please. > > The problem arose when FreshPorts old me it couldn't do anything with a > Makefile it had just obtained (via fetch), so I went to look. What I > found was a garbled Makefile. Actually, it was GZIP'd, not ASCII. > > $ fetch -o Makefile > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/www/mnoGoSearch-current/Makefile?rev=1.3 > Receiving Makefile: 0 Kbytes > 897 bytes transferred in 0.0 seconds (603.71 Kbytes/s) > > $ file Makefile > Makefile: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Tue Jan 30 > 14:00:38 2001, max speed, os: Unix > > > So then I started experimenting, and check the web interface. Then I used > this: > > $ fetch -o Makefile > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/ports/www/mnoGoSearch-current/Makefile?rev=1.3 > Receiving Makefile: 1 Kbytes > 1799 bytes transferred in 0.0 seconds (1241.55 Kbytes/s) > > $ file Makefile > Makefile: ASCII text > > Which is what one would expect. > > Why does one give the expected results and the other doesn't? I expected > both to give the same. Hmm, this reminds me of the transparent HTTP proxy issue. I suspect an HTTP proxy server is between your box and www.FreeBSD.org and it had a cache of the former page and didn't for the latter. If that is the situation, cvsweb.cgi may have to add a header field "Pragma: no-cache" or "Expire: ..(soon).." for such proxies that cache even a CGI output. (But that applies to most CGI programs...) -- / /__ __ Akinori.org / MUSHA.org / ) ) ) ) / FreeBSD.org / Ruby-lang.org Akinori MUSHA aka / (_ / ( (__( @ iDaemons.org / and.or.jp "We're only at home when we're on the run, on the wing, on the fly" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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