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| Sitemap format + wrong mime.
Hi, my text sitemap is not being generated properly... http://www.worldfootballforums.com/sitemap.txt.gz It asks to download the file (good so far), but you cant open it in winrar or anything else.... you can only open it in notepad (therefore, it's normal text... not gzip).... it's not a valid gz archive. Also, when hitting all the other xml sitemaps (gzipped versions), they open INSIDE the browser window.... so, serving with wrong mime type AND obviously not a gzip archive. This happens on both domains I am running vbseo on:-http://www.worldfootballforums.com http://www.webforumz.com Please let me know if I have done something wrong. |
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| Re: Sitemap format + wrong mime.
Hi Rob, the browsers support the "Content-Encoding: gzip" header which allows to transfer files compressed with gzip but they are uncompressed on-the-fly by browser. You can check that when you request sitemaps with download manager software (not browser), the files are transferred and stored compressed.
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| Re: Sitemap format + wrong mime.
in fact.... http://www.vbseo.com/sitemap.txt.gz Save it to you PC, then try open it with a archive app. Same issue. |
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| Re: Sitemap format + wrong mime.
I just downloaded the http://www.worldfootballforums.com/sitemap.txt.gz file with Download manager and have the following sitemap.txt.gz 37750 bytes (which is correct) As I mentioned, browsers accept the HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING behaviour, so they uncompress it on request. But if you are confused with it AND don't want to take advantage of viewing the sitemap files directly in your browser, you can modify the vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php file FIND: Quote:
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sitemap.txt.gz 58796 bytes (compressed file on disk)
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| Re: Sitemap format + wrong mime.
I think you are not understanding me... or I am not understanding you. I can obviously save it to my PC also.... but why can I NOT open this in winrar or anything else? It's says it's not a valid archive. Surely if you are serving a file as .gz then it should be a valid archive? |
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| Re: Sitemap format + wrong mime.
Mm.. is the file you downloaded of the same size as I wrote in previous post? Which software do you use to download the files? (I can open both files correctly in winrar after downloading)
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| Re: Sitemap format + wrong mime.
Weird.... I save it in firefox and it's ok. Anyway, why can I not submit it to yahoo? I try and submit these:- http://www.worldfootballforums.com/sitemap.txt.gz http://www.webforumz.com/sitemap.txt.gz and it always throws this back:- The following resulted when trying to access your document: timeout Is this an issue with yahoo? |
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| Re: Sitemap format + wrong mime.
It may take several tries to submit without timeout: Timeout error when submitting to Yahoo Please give it a try Edit: I've just submitted both your URLs to Yahoo at http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request without "timeout message".
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