use the same mimetypes as pypi does #42
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it seems that since pip>=1.5, pip checks the response header of archives for Content-Encoding.
This is what pypiserver currently guesses when you try to download a tar.gz archive:
What pip now does is decompressing the archive because of the Content-Encoding, without removing the .gz. Then it tries to untar it. Because of the filename it tries to decompress the tar archive again.
This is what pypi returns:
The patch below returns the same types as pypi does.