Cactiusers.org

Your file naming convention on the thold distribution is broken.

You distribute files named ".gzip" which are actually tar files within gzipped files.


The standard naming convention for this is ".tar.gz".

While programs in Windows (winzip,etc.) might be able to figure out what to do with these files, it's a hassle for us people in the Unix world.

Thanks.

Btw, I've just started using thold and I'm impressed by it, with or without the filename problem. ;)

Actually, this is slightly more complicated than it looks. The link to the file itself is .gzip, but the file isn't a real file. Mod rewrite redirects the request to a custom script I have written that will zip, tar, or tar.gz the files on the fly (using only PHP I might add). The script actually sends the filename header as thold.tar.gz for the filename, so your browser may be ignoring that if it is downloading as .gzip. In all actuality, any of these filenames will work.
yet they don't exist as files on the server.

I will ofcourse change the links to the files to use .tar.gz instead, but for most users the file would have downloaded as thold.tar.gz as the http header told it to.

Thanks for making me aware of issues surrounding it!

Ahh, I see why this broke now.

I tend to use wget to get files in Unix, so I'll drag the link off the web page and drop it onto whatever server I happen to be logged into in another terminal window at the time (I'm using OS X and most of our servers are Linux.) Maybe wget didn't respect your http header. -shrug-

I could definitely see how wget could have issues with it. I have now updated all the links on the site to point to .tar.gz, and made the default links for all downloads to be .tar.gz (before it was zip for some, and not others).

Thanks