Re: doubly-gzipped files

[Stephen Zander <gibreel@pobox.com>]

>>>>> "Edward" == Edward J Sabol <sabol@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:
    Edward> How about at least turning off jka-compr when the
    Edward> Content-Type is application/x-gzip or the filename
    Edward> specified in the Content-Disposition ends with ".gz"? You
    Edward> can do the same for uuencoded attachments where the
    Edward> filename ends with ".gz" as well. That should catch just
    Edward> about all cases where the problem arises.

Could you not just check the whether the attachment is compressed by
looking at the file?  If the first two bytes are \037\213 then it's
likely that file was compressed with the gzip algorithm.  Similarly,
if the file starts with \037\235, it's likely file was compressed
using LZW (aka compress).

Checking the Content-Type is good, but determination of filetype by
extension is *evil* :)

-- 
Stephen
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