[Grub-dev] LZMA support in upload server

[Balinny]

Bartek Jasicki wrote:
> On 2009-02-25, at 16:26:45
> Balinny <balinny at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> The extension is established by the dispatcher. Perhaps the workunits
>> should only contain .arc and
>>     
>
> If i good understand, you want change last entry in workunit file (with
> informations about upload server, file name, etc)? If yes, then IMO,
> this is good idea ;) But unfortunately, if i good think, it need some
> changes in workunit files format (and this can take some time).
>   
It's a two-minute change. Specially given that the last entry must be
generated on-the-fly anyway.
As a bonus, also add  Accept-Encoding: gzip, lzma

>> the clients should tell the server the compression using a
>> Content-Encoding header?
>>     
>
> But what difference been between current settings? This not change
> anything - currently using extension for LZMA compression is .lzma
> (.7zip or 7z are extensions for 7zip program not for compression).
>   
Because the client is asked to put the result on a specific address.
Removing that url extension to place a new one is intrusive.