Uncompressing Files on the Fly

[plunkett]

Hi All.

I have text files that are gziped, so they have the format of whatever.txt.gz on the server. My application links to them as whatever.txt.

What I want, is for people to click on it and receive just the plain text (i.e. i want the browser to uncompress it on the fly) but whatever I try it keeps asking me to download the zipped file when I click on the link through my browser.

I have this in my httpd.conf file..


AddEncoding x-gzip gz tgz



... and I even have an installation of apache on another machine that gives me the behavior that I want! I've examined both httpd.conf files, but I can't find my missing link. Anyone have any suggestions?

-Hal Plunkett

 

[thedaver]

Same Operating System? Same Apache Version? Files appear in same context - virtual versus named server? Using mod-rewrite in one and not the other?

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[Diancecht]

Why don't you store them as plain text?

Cheers,
Dian

 

[plunkett]

Same Operating System? Same Apache Version? Files appear in same context - virtual versus named server? Using mod-rewrite in one and not the other?

-- Both Solaris 9, slightly different Apache Versions. I believe I compiled with the same options. Same modules are being loaded in both.

Why don't you store them as plain text?

-- The Client can get the files faster and it reduces bandwidth usage, or maybe I didn't understand your question. Plain text compression ratios are very good.

I actually have a different problem now. Some of the files are unzipped correctly (on the fly) and some are not, and I can't find any difference between the two. Every hour it gets better though, so maybe it's some strange cacheing that's been going on...