#5864 HIGH Never A: Compressed files (gzip'ed) on the internet are not available to ordinary users.

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#5864: Compressed files (gzip'ed) on the internet are not available to ordinary
users.
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 Reporter:  legutierr        |       Owner:  erikos                           
     Type:  defect           |      Status:  new                              
 Priority:  high             |   Milestone:  Never Assigned                   
Component:  browse-activity  |     Version:  Development build as of this date
 Keywords:                   |    Verified:  0                                
 Blocking:                   |   Blockedby:                                   
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 Curretly, gzip'ed files are opened by e-toys, which opens a program that
 does nothing useful.

 Downloading anything successfully from the internet that is gzip'ed or
 tar'ed requires knowledge of the commandline.  wget is a solution, as is
 copying things out of the datastore, but neither is a solution for
 ordinary/novice users.

 Archived and compressed files (a likely format for html textbooks)  should
 be usable by ordinary/novice users.

 Tested with joyride-1489

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