This is an awful application to extract salmonella report files from tar archives It requires "tar" (I've tested it with GNU tar, specifically). For compressed report tar files, gzip or bzip2 are required (by default, gzip is used) To see it working, clone this repo and install this egg with: $ cd awful-salmonella-tar $ chicken-install Then add some test data and run the app: $ mkdir -p reports/master/gcc/linux/x86-64/2018/09/02/ $ cd reports/master/gcc/linux/x86-64/2018/09/02/ $ wget https://salmonella-linux-x86-64.call-cc.org/master/gcc/linux/x86-64/2018/09/02/salmonella.log.bz2 $ bzip2 -d salmonella.log.bz2 You'll need salmonella-html-report to generate report data out of the salmonella log file. If you don't have it installed, chicken-install salmonella-html-report $ salmonella-html-report salmonella.log salmonella-report $ tar czf salmonella-report.tar.gz salmonella-report $ rm -rf salmonella-report $ cd - $ awful awful-salmonella-tar-app.scm Then request, for example http://localhost:8080/reports/master/gcc/linux/x86-64/2018/09/02/salmonella-report/