Site Outage - April 8, 2005

Sometime during the day, Dreamhost appears to have changed the configuration of its servers which has resulted in the gzip encoded html documents being served as application/x-gzip rather than gzip encoded text/html.

This means that browsers would attempt to download the gzipped html files on this site rather than displaying them. I have temporarily removed the gzipped encoding from most files on this site and everything should be working again.

Update: The issue appears to have been when Dreamhost edited the mime.types file for the Apache installation to actually specify .gz as having mime type application/x-gzip rather than leaving it specified without an extension. The work around is to create content which should be gzip encoded with a different extension, but that is a pain.

Does anyone know how to work around the "download dialog" issue for encoded content when gz is mapped to a mime type?