Re: How practical is that Practical mod_perl?

[David Dick]

or, as a bugfix for future versions of mod_perl compression modules, 
before compressing the page, the module should provide the option of 
adding 2048 bytes of spaces to the beginning of the page, which 
according to my quick calculations, gzips down to 46 bytes? only for ie6 
of course. :)

Slava Bizyayev wrote:

gzip problem in IE6
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q312496 is over
since
1. M$ provides a free patch;
2. those lazy users (who usually don't care to apply patches) are not able
to report problems anymore.
Personally, I would recommend not to deal with deflate when possible.

Thanks,
Slava
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ok, i thought you might have been referred to problems that early
versions of IE6 seemed to have with gzip, or with deflate problems in
mozilla/n6.
Slava Bizyayev wrote:

   

NN-4.X sends HTTP header

Accept-Encoding: gzip

requesting any web content. Unfortunately NN-4.X fails to ungzip css
     

files
 

and JavaScript libraries. It is pretty old and well-known bug in NN-4.X.
     

To
 

work around this bug mod_gzip uses internal procedures for recognition of
NN-4.X.  The similar approach is used in mod_deflate. Apache::GzipChain
     

does
 

not have internal resources to work around this bug.

You can find on CPAN
http://search.cpan.org/author/SLAVA/Apache-CompressClientFixup-0.06/
     

which
 

is supposed to serve any mod_perl compressor including Apache::GzipChain,
but this handler is missed in example on p.402.
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Thanks,
Slava


----- Original Message ----- 
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To: "Slava Bizyayev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: How practical is that Practical mod_perl?



     

The direct implementation of the example
configuration p.402 is supposed to lead you to about 15% of unsatisfied
clients recently.




         

Can we have some more information about what in the implementation leads
to the unsatisfied clients?