making apache serve unzipped content from zipped files

Question

I need to serve a bunch of gzipped MIDI files from an Apache server. The catch is that when the user requests them, the response should come back with a "audio/midi" content-type header and not a gzip file or multipart header. In other words, Im trying to render the content(play the MIDI) off of the server and not download it to their drive. Is there an easy way I can do this ?

Answer 1

To ensure that Apache looks for randomFile.xyz.gz when the browser randomFile.xyz

Need to add

Options MultiViews

in the apache config.

To ensure the content-type is appropriate, we need to add the following

<Files *.mid.gz>
  SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
  ForceType audio/midi
</Files>