On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Slava Bizyayev wrote: > From: "Igor Sysoev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > mod_deflate had been used for one year on several popular Russian sites > > without problems so I think the main browsers have good gzip support. > > I'm not quite familiar with the mod_deflate code: > Should we consider that every web client uses the same code (and rules) to > decompress gzip & deflate?
I think that most of browsers use zlib code. Even MSIE. > Does deflate use the same to gzip data format? Yes. The difference is gzip header and tailer. gzip is longer for 18 bytes than de facto deflate implementation. I think you can easy read detailed Russian description of gzip/deflate difference: http://www.sysoev.ru/mod_deflate/readme.html#mehtods > > > That's why I believe it is better to have one simple common rule in all > > > compression modules (like an Accept-Encoding header), and a flexible > FixUp > > > handler, which should control the $r->header_in('Accept-Encoding') prior > to > > > compression handler. > > > > Fixup handler is too early for this. > > Sorry, I don't get what you mean? I mean that Apache fixup handler is not right place to decide should we use gzip encoding or not. Igor Sysoev http://sysoev.ru
