Here's a patch to private.py which makes it 1) return text/plain as the content type if the file ends in .txt, and 2) look for <filename>.gz if <filename> doesn't exist, and uses the gzip module to read it.

-- A.M. Kuchling http://starship.skyport.net/crew/amk/ How do you make sense of your life? Signal to noise: What's signal? What's noise? -- The dying film director in SIGNAL TO NOISE

*** private.py 1998/12/04 16:26:29 1.1 --- private.py 1998/12/04 16:48:36

*** 142,145 **** --- 142,149 ---- return path[1:]

• def content_type(path):

• if path[-3:] == '.gz': path = path[:-3]

• if path[-4:] == '.txt': return 'text/plain'

• return 'text/html'

  def main():

*** 147,153 **** true_filename = os.path.join(ROOT, true_path(path) ) list_name = getListName(path) if os.path.isdir(true_filename): true_filename = true_filename + '/index.html' ! if not isAuthenticated(list_name): # Output the password form --- 151,164 ---- true_filename = os.path.join(ROOT, true_path(path) ) list_name = getListName(path) +

• # If it's a directory, we have to append index.html in this script.

• # We must also check for a gzipped file, because the text archives

• # are usually stored in compressed form.
  if os.path.isdir(true_filename):
      true_filename = true_filename + '/index.html'

  ! if (not os.path.exists(true_filename) and ! os.path.exists(true_filename + '.gz') ): ! true_filename = true_filename + '.gz' !
  if not isAuthenticated(list_name): # Output the password form

*** 167,180 **** print '\n\n', page % vars() sys.exit(0) ! print 'Content-type: text/html\n' !
! print '\n\n' # Authorization confirmed... output the desired file try: ! f = open(true_filename, 'r') except IOError: print "<H3>Archive File Not Found</H3>" print "No file", path else: while (1): data = f.read(16384) --- 178,196 ---- print '\n\n', page % vars() sys.exit(0) ! # Authorization confirmed... output the desired file try: ! if true_filename[-3:] == '.gz': ! import gzip ! f = gzip.open(true_filename, 'r') ! else: ! f = open(true_filename, 'r') except IOError:

•     print 'Content-type: text/html\n'

•     print "<H3>Archive File Not Found</H3>"
      print "No file", path
  else:

•     print 'Content-type:', content_type(path), '\n'
      while (1):
          data = f.read(16384)