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jknopp

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Double compression?
« on: September 15, 2014, 06:01:00 AM »
Although Webmaster Tools isn't complaining about the sitemap, when I download my gzip'd sitemap and extract, the resulting sitemap.xml file is actually a compressed file again. If I rename it to .gz and extract again, the new result works correctly. Not experiencing the same issue with any other gz files I download. Same behaviour if grabbing the file with Chrome or Firefox.
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Re: Double compression?
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2014, 10:41:16 AM »
Hello,

what is your sitemap URL?
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jknopp

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Re: Double compression?
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2014, 03:19:56 PM »
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Re: Double compression?
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2014, 12:00:38 PM »
Hello,

possibly your server adds another compression "layer" on the fly. Please try to disable compression setting.
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jknopp

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Re: Double compression?
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2014, 03:02:27 AM »
Turned out sitemap.xml.gz wasn't actually compressed at all, but an uncompressed XML file pointing to the sub-parts. Google is smart enough to process it correctly anyway but clearly my machine got confused.

Seems to me there is a logic error that happens when you have compression selected in config and the sitemap gets broken into more than one part.
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