Fix #1350: Serve compresed files as is in static_file()

Do not instruct browsers to transparently uncompress gzipped files.

bottle.py

@@ -2874,12 +2874,12 @@ def static_file(filename, root,
         ``If-None-Match``) are answered with ``304 Not Modified`` whenever
         possible. ``HEAD`` and ``Range`` requests (used by download managers to
         check or continue partial downloads) are also handled automatically.
-
     """
 
     root = os.path.join(os.path.abspath(root), '')
     filename = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(root, filename.strip('/\\')))
     headers = headers.copy() if headers else {}
+    getenv = request.environ.get
 
     if not filename.startswith(root):
         return HTTPError(403, "Access denied.")
@@ -2889,31 +2889,32 @@ def static_file(filename, root,
         return HTTPError(403, "You do not have permission to access this file.")
 
     if mimetype is True:
-        if download and download is not True:
-            mimetype, encoding = mimetypes.guess_type(download)
-        else:
-            mimetype, encoding = mimetypes.guess_type(filename)
-        if encoding:
-            headers['Content-Encoding'] = encoding
+        name = download if isinstance(download, str) else filename
+        mimetype, encoding = mimetypes.guess_type(fname)
+        if encoding == 'gzip':
+            mimetype = 'application/gzip'
+        elif encoding: # e.g. bzip2 -> application/x-bzip2
+            mimetype = 'application/x-' + encoding
+
+    if charset and mimetype and 'charset=' not in mimetype \
+        and (mimetype[:5] == 'text/' or mimetype == 'application/javascript'):
+        mimetype += '; charset=%s' % charset
 
     if mimetype:
-        if (mimetype[:5] == 'text/' or mimetype == 'application/javascript')\
-          and charset and 'charset' not in mimetype:
-            mimetype += '; charset=%s' % charset
         headers['Content-Type'] = mimetype
 
+    if download is True:
+        download = os.path.basename(filename)
+
     if download:
-        download = os.path.basename(filename if download is True else download)
+        download = download.replace('"','')
         headers['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="%s"' % download
 
     stats = os.stat(filename)
     headers['Content-Length'] = clen = stats.st_size
-    headers['Last-Modified'] = email.utils.formatdate(stats.st_mtime,
-                                                      usegmt=True)
+    headers['Last-Modified'] = email.utils.formatdate(stats.st_mtime, usegmt=True)
     headers['Date'] = email.utils.formatdate(time.time(), usegmt=True)
 
-    getenv = request.environ.get
-
     if etag is None:
         etag = '%d:%d:%d:%d:%s' % (stats.st_dev, stats.st_ino, stats.st_mtime,
                                    clen, filename)

docs/changelog.rst

@@ -73,11 +73,11 @@ These changes might require special care when updating.
 * :meth:`Bottle.mount` now recognizes instances of :class:`Bottle` and mounts them with significantly less overhead than other WSGI applications.
 * The :attr:`Request.json` property now accepts ``application/json-rpc`` requests.
 * :func:`static_file` gained support for ``ETag`` headers. It will generate ETags and recognizes ``If-None-Match`` headers.
+* :func:`static_file` will now guess the mime type of ``*.gz`` and other compressed files correctly (e.g. ``application/gzip``) and NOT set the ``Content-Encoding`` header.
 * Jinja2 templates will produce better error messages than before.
 
 
 
-
 Release 0.12
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