Bug 26233

Summary: cannot read compressed content directly
Product: WebKit Reporter: Baptiste Mille-Mathias <baptiste.millemathias>
Component: WebKitGTKAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: Normal CC: mrowe
Priority: P2    
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   

Description Baptiste Mille-Mathias 2009-06-06 01:46:55 PDT 
As I don't know the real cause I'll explain my problem.

With epiphany or Mozilla I can read a gz compressed text document directly within the browser, but with epiphnay-webkit I can't. it downloads the document.

For example I access http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27500212/gnome-bluetooth_2.27.5-1ubuntu1.diff.gz
Comment 1 Mark Rowe (bdash) 2009-06-06 02:01:57 PDT 
I don't think the libsoup backend currently supports "Content-Encoding: gzip".  That server appears to be unconditionally sending content with that content-encoding, even when the client does not include "gzip" in the "Accept-Encoding" header.  I think that's technically a violation of the RFC.  Boo.
Comment 2 Xan Lopez 2009-06-06 02:17:47 PDT 
Right, since the Content-Type here is 'text/plain' I think this is just the server ignoring us when we say we don't support 'gzip' encoding, and that this would just work if the server wasn't buggy or if we supported that. Let's mark this as a dupe of 25855.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 25855 ***