Description: ------------ Downloading the bz2 zipped version of the manual[1] sends a wrong HTTP header, which causes Internet Explorer to save the file as manual.tar.tar. This is the wrong header that is send during this process is the. Content-Type: application/x-tar Ths .bz2 file is not a tar file at all, but a bz2 file :) [1] http://pear.php.net/distributions/manual/pear_manual_en.tar.bz2 Reproduce code: --------------- Download http://pear.php.net/distributions/manual/pear_manual_en.tar.bz2 Expected result: ---------------- Have IE save the file as pear_manual_en.tar.bz2 Actual result: -------------- IE saves the file as pear_manual_en.tar.tar

Looks like application/octet-stream is the correct content type. I've changed the server configuration accordingly.