On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 01:05:31AM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 01:53:03PM +0200, Paul Slootman uttered: > > Would it be possible to also offer a compressed version of these files > > (update_excuses.html, update_output.txt, etc)? Most browsers can handle > > uncompressing these on the fly and it makes accessing these lists MUCH > > faster. As a porter I often use update_excuses for tracking down > > packages that are out of date (on alpha) for longer than normal (usually > > indicating a problem that can't be handled by the build daemon), and > > hence look at that list quite regularly. > > > That may also involve installing mod_gzip on ftp-master.
Downloading gzipped files that automatically ungzip on the client doesn't require any module. If someone supplies a update-excuses.gz it will work without any changes to apache. The module would be required if you want to autonegotiate the compression on the file. -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Magnetism, electricity and motion are like a three-for-two special offer: > if you have two of them, the third one comes free.