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Re: setup 2.427 runtime error
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Max Bowsher wrote:
> David A. Cobb wrote:
>
> > I downloaded the .tar.bz2 file, which is probably meant to be the
> > source. However, bunzip2 says it is not a (valid) bzip2 file.
> > In my experience, this is often caused by the server passing an
> > incorrect MIME type from which the http download module of my browser
> > (Mozilla Firefox) infers incorrectly that the file is text.
>
> It *is* the source. Mozilla 1.7.2 handles it correctly.
>
> Server headers:
> [snip]
>
> I suspect Firefox may have unhelpfully un-bzip2ed it dynamically, but not
> removed the .bz2 suffix.
Firefox doesn't do this, but the mirror itself may have.
Igor
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