Re: PHP Downloaded Documentation English from Canadian Server as Single HTML FILE doesn't work.

On 21 February 2013 20:12, Daniel Brown <danbrown@php.net> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Benjamin Tiessen <bentiessen@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> http://www.php.net/get/php_manual_en.html.gz/from/ca1.php.net/mirror >> >> I have tried a few others too and they seem to return nothing but this >> stuff: >> >> ‹ Q php-bigxhtml.htmlÌ[ërܶ’þ¯§ÀQª¼öÖh&N²• >> -+«‹mÙ±"­,Ç'çÏ †ÄÌÀC >> Aj4~£}…­ýµçÅöën€ä\tqrêT\e{† ¾|Ý ôìÿåäüøê׋—êôêì >> ºøpôîͱÚÝ >~{< \ >> È‹ï†_?UW•.¼­­+t6 ½üyWíÎêº|6 - ‹áâÛ¡«¦£«ËѬγïF™sÞ >> Ó:Ý=ØÙ§G ;j ftŠÿÕ~mëÌ >> \œ^¨3]4:Û É z—›Z+¢¼g~kìõ‹ÝÄ µ)ê½zYš] >> ¾½Ø­ÍMÍ‹=WÉLWÞÔ/>\½Úû÷]Zi –Ú »ty°ŸÚkeÓ >> »¶HÍ hdÚû »˜²{°?«Ôˆ™{ Ÿ3/»+ìÍžbÈÎ † ©0Î ·Ë<÷ ꦞA >> •kÊ]^S x >> ÄÈ-CÕu¢+ˆißו+¦ñåx¹{0^î äéÁ³ý±ð >> >> I have tried changing my Google Chrome web browser from Western Encoding to >> UTF-8 and it is still just symbols. > > For some reason, your browser isn't properly interpreting Gzip'd > files. I checked the mirror and it's working fine, and downloads as > expected for me. You'll need to consult a Chrome-specific support > site for help with that. In the meantime, trying another browser may > do the trick at least to grab the file for you. > > -- > </Daniel P. Brown> > Network Infrastructure Manager > http://www.php.net/ That is the .gz file. I think you've changed the extension from .html.gz to just .gz. So, when you try to open it, compter says no. You will need to ungzip the file first. Hexdump of first few bytes matches your experience. 00000000 | 1F 8B 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 22 80 DD 7F 1F 8B 08 08 22 52 27 51 02 03 70 68 70 2D 62 69 67 | ...........".... .."R'Q..php-big 00000020 | 78 68 74 6D 6C 2E 68 74 6D 6C 00 CC 5B EB 72 DB B8 92 FE EF A7 C0 F1 54 65 93 2D 59 4A 32 53 35 | xhtml.html..[.r. ......Te.-YJ2S5 -- Richard Quadling Twitter : @RQuadling EE : http://e-e.com/M_248814.html Zend : http://bit.ly/9O8vFY