Comment 14 for bug 270990

Ok, first stop towards success:

Without making any changes, it is possible to open a distant svgz file under linux with the following command line:

inkscape file:///path/to/file.svgz#gzip:

Drawback: you get an error dialog upon opening with message "Format autodetect failed. The file is being opened as SVG"

Note that the current bug affects not only svgz files on nfs but any distant file (e.g. ftp, http). And this workarround works for them to:

inkscape http://my.server.com/file.svgz#gzip:

If I can get rid off the error dialog, the fix should be fairly trivial.