Igor Sysoev wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Zvi Har'El wrote: > > ... > > In my mod_deflate module (for Apache 1.3.x) I'd enabled by default > "text/html" only. You can add or remove another type with DeflateTypes > directive. Here are some recomendations: > > application/x-javascript NN4 does not understand it compressed. > text/css the same. > > text/plain Macromedia FlashPlayer 4.x-5.x does not understand it > compressed when get it with loadVariables() function via browser. > text/xml Macromedia FlashPlayer 5.x does not understand it > compressed when get it with XML.load() function via browser. > > application/x-shockwave-flash FlashPlayer plugin for NN4 for Windows > does not understand it compressed. Although plugin for Linux > NN4 work correctly. > > text/rtf MSIE 4.x-6.x understand correctly them > application/msword when compressed. NN and Opera does not. > application/vnd.ms-excel > application/vnd.ms-powerpoint
I want to add that these issues (what to compress and what to leave as- is), were discussed very deeply and heavilly in the mod_gzip list. If we don't adopt mod_gzip but develop our own mod_deflate (both are good, by the way), we should at least use the long experience that mod_gzip has had. After being used in so many installations, and even being included in leading Linux distros, there is almost no combination of format/browser that has not been tested yet. Your research, Igor, is very helpful (and Zvi's as well), but we can base more default definitions on the defaults (or conclusions) of mod_gzip. The list of default definitions may become quite long, but putting it inside an IfModule section, which separates it from the other parts of httpd.conf, may help. I believe that the improvement in bandwidth, deserves the price in size of httpd.conf. Just my 2C... -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-23-7338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel
