Re: lftp results in corrupted files with one https server

lftp decompresses the file if the server has indicated that it compressed
the file for transfer by the "Content-Encoding: gzip" header. Upgrade lftp
to avoid the problem.

пт, 15 апр. 2016 г. в 23:52, Jethro Tull <[email protected]>:

>
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Alexander V. Lukyanov <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 7:53 AM
> > To: Jethro Tull
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [lftp] lftp results in corrupted files with one https server
>
> >> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 08:59:57PM +0000, Jethro Tull wrote:
> >> I'm trying to download this file "
> https://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/14.1/office/libreoffice-helppack.tar.gz".
> I >> first tried with lftp -c get "
> https://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/14.1/office/libreoffice-helppack.tar.gz";
> It does >> download something but tar complains that it's not a gzip
> archive when trying to open it and I tried with
> >> wget, it worked well. The file I downloaded with lftp is ~ 10 KB, and
> the one with wget is ~ 2.6 KB. No need to >> mention that their md5 are
> different. I get the same problem with all the other files I tried to
> download with >> lftp from "https://slackbuilds/org", but I have not
> noticed any problem on the few other https repositories I >> tried such as "
> https://www.kernel.org/pub" and a few archlinux mirrors I found on their
> website.
>
> > Please try a current lftp version (the newest is 4.7.1). The problem is
> > automatic uncompressing entities with "Content-Encoding: gzip". The
> > workaround was added in lftp version 4.5.6.
>
> > You can also do "set http:decode false" to disable uncompressing.
>
> > --
> >    Alexander.
>
> yeah I checked the "corrupt file", it is indeed gzip decompressed.
> I checked again with https://www.kernel.org/pub, this time by carefully
> choosing a tar.gz archive. The downloaded file is fine, i.e. no
> decompression occurs. So why would lftp decompress files from
> slackbuilds.org server and not from www.kernel.org one?
> I'm using slackware 14.1 with the default lftp package which version
> number is 4.4.9. It seems there is no variable http:decode. Here it is:
>
> lftp www.kernel.org:/pub/linux/utils/usb/usbutils> set http:decode "false"
> http:decode: no such variable. Use `set -a' to look at all variables.
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