[Fedora Infrastructure] #4005: pkgs.fedoraproject.org content encoding misconfiguration

[Fedora Infrastructure]

#4005: pkgs.fedoraproject.org content encoding misconfiguration
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  Reporter:  dsheets      |      Owner:  webmaster
      Type:  bug          |     Status:  new
  Priority:  minor        |  Milestone:  HANDWAVY-FUTURE
 Component:  Web Content  |    Version:  Production
  Severity:  Normal       |   Keywords:  encoding apache gzip conneg
Blocked By:               |   Blocking:
 Sensitive:  0            |
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 = bug description =

 $ curl --verbose --write-out
 %{http_code}\\n%{content_type}\\n%{filename_effective}\\n --insecure
 --retry 10 --retry-delay 2 --compressed -JOL
 http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/ocaml-
 ulex/ulex-1.1.tar.gz/ce49a013bc4a0e085977a9fe157017bf/ulex-1.1.tar.gz

 says

 *snip*
 < Content-Type: application/x-gzip
 < Content-Encoding: x-gzip
 *snip*

 but

 $ file ulex-1.1.tar.gz
 ulex-1.1.tar.gz: POSIX tar archive (GNU)

 = bug analysis =

 This causes scripted downloads to fail. Particularly, the OCaml Package
 Manager, OPAM, uses <https://github.com/OCamlPro/opam-
 repository/blob/master/packages/ulex.1.1/url> this URL and fails to gunzip
 the tar.

 = fix recommendation =

 Edit the Apache config which probably contains an AddEncoding directive on
 files that match *.gz or something similar. This is not necessary and
 confuses clients (browsers do frightening and terrible sniffing that
 scripts shouldn't have to).

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