On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Geoffrey Young wrote:
> > > just beware that not all browsers that claim to accept gzip
> > compression
> > > actually do...
> >
> > No its the other way around. Not all browsers that can accept
> > gzip send
> > out Accept-Encoding: gzip. Notably early versions of IE4.
>
> I was basing that on discussions on the mod_gzip list and the following
> (from the mod_gzip code)
>
> * 5. Many browsers ( such as Netscape 4.75 for UNIX ) are unable
> * to handle Content-encoding only for specific kinds of HTML
> * transactions such as Style Sheets even though the browser
> * says it is HTTP 1.1 compliant and is suppying the standard
> * 'Accept-encoding: gzip' field. According to the IETF
> * specifications any user-agent that says it can accept
> * encodings should be able to do so for all types of HTML
> * transactions but this is simply not the current reality.
> * Some will, some won't... even if they say they can.
>
> I don't have any first hand experience with it, though...
Yikes, thats really dumb. I guess its both ways around then...
<shameless_plug>
So really your best bet is to just use AxKit, which will compress just
your HTML content and won't handle your CSS files or anything else :-)
</shameless_plug>
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