> > It's not 'broken'. > Why change it? > Please don't think that old configurations and practices are not broken - web sites are loading too slow for pipes and web-server power that we have.
And situation is getting worse year after year - here's analysis by Patrick Meanan of WebPageTest.org's one year history: http://blog.patrickmeenan.com/2010/05/are-pages-getting-faster.html Sergey > > Kevin Kiley > > [snip] > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> > To: dev@httpd.apache.org > Sent: Tue, Jun 1, 2010 7:40 am > Subject: Re: Fast by default > > Geez, Eric. No wonder people don't want to contribute to httpd, when they > run into an attitude like yours. That dismissiveness makes me embarressed > for our community. > There is zero reason for us to avoid putting deflate into the default > configuration. > It is also very arguable that we should leave it off. I think others have > argued well to enable it by default, while you've simply dismissed them with > your holier-than-thou attitude and lack of any solid rationale. > -g > > On May 31, 2010 8:06 PM, "Eric Covener" <cove...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Bryan McQuade <bmcqu...@google.com> > wrote: > > I propose providing an... > An additional httpd.conf doesn't sound valuable to me. What slice of > non-savvy users would scrutinize an alternate config file, can replace > the config file of their webserver, isn't using a webserver packaged > by their OS, and wouldn't have just gotten the same information today > from the manual and 400,000 other websites? > > There's currently no <ifModule> bloat in the default conf, but you're > welcome to submit a patch that adds one for deflate or expires (latter > seems more unwise to me). See the "supplemental configuration" section > of the generated config. > > This doesn't address mass-vhost companies failing to allow deflate > because it's not in the no-args HTTPD ./configure , which sounds > far-fetched to me. I can't recall a users@ or #httpd user implying > being subjected to such a thing with their own build or with cheap > hosting. > > -- > Eric Covener > cove...@gmail.com > >
