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

[Antoine Pitrou]

M.-A. Lemburg <mal <at> egenix.com> writes:
> 
> 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.

It's precisely what I want, actually. I wanted the file to open in
the archive manager, not in my text editor (or any other program chosen
at random by the OS / browser).

Regards

Antoine.