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Downloaded source code files (all *tar.gz / *tar.xz) are renamed tar.tar locally

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
html
Domain
web-dev

Research direction

Reproduce the behavior in Safari by downloading the listed archives from https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/4.0/. Compare the downloaded names for the .tar.gz and .tar.xz examples and inspect the repository and serving configuration to find where the extension is changed. Done means each archive keeps its original filename and extension.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

Location:

Every *tar.* downloaded from:

https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/4.0/

seems to be every version, server wide.

Action:

Download file (Client: Safari), check downloaded name

examples:
ruby-3.1.7.tar.gz  ->  ruby-3.1.7.tar.tar
ruby-4.0.1.tar.gz  ->  ruby-4.0.1.tar.tar
ruby-4.0.1.tar.xz  ->  ruby-4.0.1.tar.tar
ruby-4.0.3.tar.gz  ->  ruby-4.0.3.tar.tar
ruby-4.0.5.tar.gz  ->  ruby-4.0.5.tar.tar

No local script is doing this afaik

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