Hello,

  I know somebody will ask this at some point, because I ran into this
problem a year or so ago.^^;

  In this KomHttpServer case, I'd strongly suggest to change the way
this particular .sar file (preamble) is written.  It downloads
additional files upon installing (which I don't think a good idea),
and the content from the HTTPSocket is treated as a text file (even
though it is a binary compressed file) and store them into local
temporary file.

  I think that #binary shouldn't change the converter.  In many cases,
a MultiByteFileStream gets #binary and #text back and forth, and
surely we don't want to change the converter.

-- Yoshiki

At Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:28:09 -0700,
Ned Konz wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday 27 October 2004 11:03 pm, Torsten Bergmann wrote:
> 
> > tried downloading KomHttpServer from SqueakMap into Squeak.
> > It just works in a 3.7/3.8alpha image but not in
> > an updated unstable stream image (loaded updates up to
> > 6326). 'bad signature 07000017 at position 18686'
> > Looks like one of the changeset introduced a difference
> > in ZIP handling. Didnt find the time to debug.
> >
> > Is anyone else able to reproduce this?
> 
> In a 6328 image, "download into cache" followed by opening the .zip file in 
> the ArchiveViewer works OK.
> 
> So you might want to do this ("force download", "browse cache", then "install" 
> from the file list).
> 
> However, the SARInstaller doesn't work right (I got the same error).
> 
> There are two problems; one is that m17n changes have broken Steven's 
> extension for the SARInstaller.
> 
> The problem is that streams have changed so that if you use the old open or 
> create methods the assumption is that the streams are text, and will have a 
> UTF8TextConverter attached that will damage binary data.
> 
> So you'll see patterns now like:
> 
>  stream := FileStream readOnlyFileNamed: 'xxx'.
>  stream converter: Latin1TextConverter new.
>  stream binary.
> 
> Perhaps #binary on MultiByteFileStream should also set the textConverter to a 
> Latin1TextConverter.
> 
> Yoshiki, would this break anything?
> 
> -- 
> Ned Konz
> http://bike-nomad.com/squeak/