[Catalog-sig] PyPI doesn't serve the correct mimetypes

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 10.02.2013 18:00, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> $ curl -I
> http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/z/zope.interface/zope.interface-4.0.3.tar.gz
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Server: nginx/1.1.19
> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:59:29 GMT
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream
> Content-Length: 140124
> Last-Modified: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:23:12 GMT
> Connection: keep-alive
> Accept-Ranges: bytes
> 
> 
> But:
> 
>  [>>>] mimetypes.guess_type("foo.tar.gz")
>  ('application/x-tar', 'gzip')

I suppose this is done to make sure that browsers open the
"save as" dialog on the original file.

If you instead set the correct MIME type
on these files, browsers often tend to transparently decompress
the files before offering to save them, which is not what
you want in this use case.

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