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Bug #55979 bz2 links send wrong Content-Type
Submitted: 2004-02-06 13:37 UTC Modified: 2004-02-07 16:30 UTC
From: php at cipri dot com Assigned: mj (profile)
Status: Closed Package: PECL website (PECL)
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: Windows 2000
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2004-02-06 13:37 UTC] php at cipri dot com 
Description:
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Downloading the bz2 zipped version of the manual[1] sends a wrong HTTP header, which causes Internet Explorer to save the file as manual.tar.tar.
This is the wrong header that is send during this process is the.

Content-Type: application/x-tar

Ths .bz2 file is not a tar file at all, but a bz2 file :)

[1] http://pear.php.net/distributions/manual/pear_manual_en.tar.bz2


Reproduce code:
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Download http://pear.php.net/distributions/manual/pear_manual_en.tar.bz2


Expected result:
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Have IE save the file as pear_manual_en.tar.bz2

Actual result:
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IE saves the file as pear_manual_en.tar.tar

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 [2004-02-07 16:30 UTC] mj@php.net 
Looks like application/octet-stream is the correct content type. I've changed the server configuration accordingly.
 
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