Safari auto unzipping

[Lindon]

@d-healey first I cant see this topic in the general questions area at all, I have to get to it from teh previous thread link..

But perhaps someone could try and see if unzip works with alternate extensions in HISE?

[Christoph Hart]

@Lindon I'm pretty sure that the file extension doesn't matter to HISE, you just give it a file object to extract and it doesn't care about the extension.

The more interesting question is if Safari has super powers to recognize a zip archive even if we use the master cheat code of renaming the file extension like the professional hackers that we are.

[d.healey]

@Christoph-Hart I'll test it later tonight, I suspect they can detect the mime type though.

[d.healey]

Test complete, seems to work :) I propose we use the following file extension .zippyzippyzipzip

[Christoph Hart]

@d-healey My suggestion would be .notzip...

[Lindon]

@d-healey mine is

.zippyMcBoatFace

-- sorry thats probably a very british joke...

[DanH]

@Lindon should be .zippyMcZipFace no?

[Lindon]

@DanH said in Safari auto unzipping:

@Lindon should be .zippyMcZipFace no?

technically yes I suppose it should...

[Lindon]

Okay do we have a generally accepted size limit for the "zip" files we can create - and unzip with HISE safely?

-- I am assuming this is something you'd know Dave ... @d-healey

[Christoph Hart]

I'm trying to stay under 2GB with all my zip files.

[Lindon]

@Christoph-Hart great - I've kept under 2Gb too...so all good then . Thanks.

[DanH]

@Lindon 3.2GB works fine here...

[d.healey]

I try to stay at 2GB or below. If a user on a dodgy connection gets cut off part way through a file 2GB isn't too bad to have to re-download.