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Rob--W / open-in-browser

A browser extension that offers the ability to open files directly in the browser instead of downloading them.
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Support for uncompressing .gz and .bz2 #68

Closed kjetilho closed 3 years ago

kjetilho commented 3 years ago

It would be super useful if Open-in-browser could uncompress files before presenting them to the browser. Just handling them as TXT would be a good start.

Rob--W commented 3 years ago

This is probably out of scope for this add-on. It's the responsibility of the server to set the correct response header that allows the browser to recognize the compression and then decompress it.

Do you have any examples where this functionality would be needed / desired?

kjetilho commented 3 years ago

It does set a gzip mime type. You think I should make a wrapper script and foist it over to it instead? That would work, of course.

Example: https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/jdoss/wireguard/epel-8-x86_64/repodata/

(I do not expect sqlite support ;)

Rob--W commented 3 years ago

I was originally thinking of forcidbly changing the response headers, to Content-Encoding: gzip to get the browser to automatically uncompress .gz files, plus forcing the Content-Type to application/xml. This did not work for your given test case because there is a byte order mark (BOM) at the start of the uncompressed XML file.

bz2 encoding is not natively supported by the browser. An extension could try to decompress it (by modifying the response body via the filterResponseData API).

sqlite support etc. is obviously not feasible.

What you're asking for requires active modification of response bodies, which is outside the scope of this project. If you are interested in building something relevant yourself, see: