switch to gzipped mboxes

[public-inbox.git] / lib / PublicInbox / WWW.pm

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/WWW.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/WWW.pm
index cd8a57055cc2410835c52e87d74ca7b0a1fd9607..68839d7cee3ef3af33717f48b5d3aacda1c20c94 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/WWW.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/WWW.pm
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ sub run {
        } elsif ($path_info =~ m!$LISTNAME_RE/t/(\S+)\.html\z!o) {
                invalid_list_mid(\%ctx, $1, $2) || get_thread(\%ctx, $cgi);
 
-       } elsif ($path_info =~ m!$LISTNAME_RE/t/(\S+)\.mbox\z!o) {
+       } elsif ($path_info =~ m!$LISTNAME_RE/t/(\S+)\.mbox\.gz!o) {
+               my $sfx = $3;
                invalid_list_mid(\%ctx, $1, $2) || get_thread_mbox(\%ctx, $cgi);
 
        } elsif ($path_info =~ m!$LISTNAME_RE/f/\S+\.txt\z!o) {
@@ -329,7 +330,10 @@ sub msg_pfx {
        "../f/$href.html";
 }
 
-# /$LISTNAME/t/$MESSAGE_ID.mbox                    -> search results as mbox
+# /$LISTNAME/t/$MESSAGE_ID.mbox.gz        -> search results as gzipped mbox
+# note: I'm not a big fan of other compression formats since they're
+# significantly more expensive on CPU than gzip and less-widely available,
+# especially on older systems.  Stick to zlib since that's what git uses.
 sub get_thread_mbox {
        my ($ctx, $cgi) = @_;
        my $srch = searcher($ctx) or return need_search($ctx);