Bug#464155: packages.qa.d.o (package-specific pages): browsers want to save, not display, update-excuses

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Package: qa.debian.org
> Severity: minor
>
> The update-excuses link (package-specific pages, "Problems" box) is less
> than useful due to its MIME type, which is application/gzip: browsers
> typically want to save the file rather than display it.
>
> A quick way to fix it is to remove the ".gz", i.e. have it point at
> http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html so that the
> server reports it as being of type text/html.

Better, the Apache configuration on ftp-master.debian.org could be fixed
to serve .html.gz files with a Content-Type of text/html and a
Content-Encoding of gzip, which browsers should then cope with.  I've
found that adding:

    RemoveType .gz
    AddEncoding gzip .gz

is sometimes necessary to get Apache to recognize this correctly.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>