maku

It probably depends on the server.

Did your web host setup WordPress for you, too? I would check with them, then.

The problem has been fixed by Barry (copy-pasted from wp-hackers mailing list):

So, here’s the technical explanation:

It had nothing to do with the User-Agent but with the HTTP request
headers that were sent. By default CLI utilities such as wget and curl
dont send any Accept-Encoding headers. Server side we were sending a
‘Content-Encoding: gzip’ header for the tar.gz file. Since there was no
‘Accept-Encoding: gzip’ header sent by the client, an uncompressed
version was delivered to the client. It’s pretty inconvenient (as you
noticed) to have a tar.gz file that is uncompressed.

I have removed the Content-Encoding header and replaced it with the
correct Content-Type headers to identify the different download types.

You’re right; I tried it on another linux box and received the same thing with wget and links, but in firefox, it downloaded a gzip’d version. Weird. I’ve downloaded via wget before (<2.3 versions) and I always used the command: tar zxvf latest.tar.gz to decompress/untar. There seems to have been a server change on the www.ads-software.com end.