.taz in a URL?
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Nothing critical, just wondering what web language/framework a .taz filename on a URL indicates? Anybody have any clue? I'm trying to Google it, but all I'm finding is that it's an archive format.
And yes, I am aware that anybody can set any webserver to serve files with any extension, so it's quite possible it means nothing at all. Just curious.
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Just to eliminate one option: are you sure it's not just gzipped html?
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Not entirely. Typically gzipped HTML isn't served from a different URL, though-- it's still named .html or .php or .aspx or what-not.
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Yeah, I was hypothesizing that it might be some kind of minimalist open-source type of deal.
Anyway, here's a wall of text that I haven't read, except for the one line TAZ servers provide a mapping of names (ending in .taz) to URLs in the same way that a DNS server maps domain names to IP addresses. that showed up in the google hit (".taz web page", 7th result).
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.taz is an alternate extension for "tar.gz" (or more likely "tar.zip" now that I think of it) that IIRC predates LFN support on Windows.
Addendum: a search for ".taz file extension" says it's ".tar.Z" which actually makes more sense, given how old it is (as in I believe it predates gzip, too.)
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(as in I believe it predates gzip, too.)
also given that the canonical short extension for tar.gz is .tgz
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also given that the canonical short extension for tar.gz is .tgz
Enjoy your http://www.doolins.com/images/products/detail/1218multips.jpg
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also given that the canonical short extension for tar.gz is .tgz
Just out of curiosity, did you know what .taz was before you read this topic?
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Is it in an anime? Then yes.
SNARK!
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yeah.
i use linux extensively, even if my primary OS is windows (because of the games)
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You're never served compressed HTML, this is done by the web server if the client requests this with the appropriate header and is done on the HTTP layer.
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So the consensus is... what?
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So the consensus is... what?
it's a tar.Z archive.
winzip or winrar should handle that IIRC or you can extract on lunux by:
$> tar -xZv -C DIR -f filename.tazthat will decopmpress and dump everything into a directory called
DIRif i have my flags right anyway. tar is a bit twitchy about the flags and i don't have a .taz file handy to test against. it should work...
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oh. if it's a web page...... uhhh.... maybe it's one of those esoteric languages running the back end (like Go) or they just liked the .taz extension and configured apache to run .taz through PHP or something....
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$> uncompress filename.taz -c |tar -xv -C DIRor simply `tar xZf filename.taz`. Or even `tar xf filename.taz` because recent versions of tar can autodetect compressed files.
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edited my answer. thanks for the info.
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So the consensus is... what?
TAZ servers provide a mapping of names (ending in .taz) to URLs in the same way that a DNS server maps domain names to IP addresses.
Temporary Autonomous Zone, apparently? Something to do with ReWebber? A virtual hostname for a Rewebber to consume, which would be helpful if I knew what Rewebber was.
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Yeah so far that seems the most likely.
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This is way too long for me to browse right now but seems to have more details: http://freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/rewebber.html
