>> Not good. If the html is hacked so that links work while it is
>> compressed, then when someone UNcompresses it, the links will
>> break. This would certainly be a surprising effect of unzpping
>> html files.
> Then don't do that! :-)
> My point is that files should work as installed by dpkg. If you
> uncompress them, then you're on your own wrt upgrading, package
> purging, and yes, even wrt the package working correctly. There
> are lots of _surprising effects_ after unzipping packaged files.
BOA transparently looks for a gzipped file if it cannot find an
uncompressed version of a document. If other web servers don't do
this it would be a good idea to add this feature and enable it by
default.
Please do not insert links to compressed html files into a document.
I've disabled Navigator's encoding filters, since I don't want Navigator
to decompress files and make it impossible to verify signatures and
checksums.
