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Gmail/google drive is a big offender here...

When someone sends me a zip file, having the most obvious link take me to a list of files in the zip that I can neither preview nor download seems illogical.

In the 21st century, I expect webmail providers to understand zip files.

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Im guessing there is some kind of performance issue here. Where large or certain kinds of archives can have huge unzip times. Or especially that it is hard to determine the unzip time before unzipping.

Google drive drops a lot of features that are technically easy because there is no fast or constant time to perform the action.

Seems easy enough to just have a 1 second timeout and some RAM limit, and if the server can't get the job done in that the request is aborted and an error is presented to the user telling them to download the whole zip file and unzip it themselves.

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