Why does this happen? It must be something to do with Mime types somewhere. When I download a tar.gz file in Opera it thinks that it is a .tar file and then renames the extension to just .tar. Then, Winzip launches and says it can't handle the file since it is now confused by trying to open the .tar.gz file with the a .tar extension. So then, I have to close Winzip, find the file on the file system and rename it. Renaming it in Opera's Transfers screen just confuses Opera.
Does the problem lie in Opera's Mime type handling or is it that the web servers that are serving the .tar.gz files are saying that they are .tar files?
Posted by stuartcw at June 13, 2004 10:41 AMIf I remember correctly, the fault lies in the web server.
Posted by: Daniel Bonniot at June 14, 2004 07:47 PMI found a page where you can check what a server is sending for MIME types and what it should be.
http://mindprod.com/mimecheck.html
Posted by: Stuart Woodward at June 26, 2004 10:05 AM