Re: deflate in mod_deflate

[Igor Sysoev]

On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:

> As of right now, we have no plans to add 'deflate' support.  I'm
> not aware of any browsers/client that support 'deflate' rather
> than 'gzip.'
> 
> My guess is that the encapsulation format is slightly different
> than with gzip, but I really haven't sat down to look at the
> relevant RFCs.  It might be easy, but it might be hard.

MSIE, Mozilla and Opera do not understand RFC 1950 'deflate' method, i.e.
they want RFC 1951 only deflated stream without any zlib header
and Adler32 checksum trailer.


Igor Sysoev
http://sysoev.ru/en/

Re: deflate in mod_deflate

[Justin Erenkrantz]

On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 12:13:25PM -0800, Xiaodong Shen wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am playing with mod_deflate that comes with 2.0.43, it works nice for
> Accept-Encoding: gzip, however it always returns the identity version of
> the requested resource if Accept-Encoding: deflate is provided in the
> request. 
> 
> My question is why Accept-Encoding: deflate is not supported in
> mod_deflate, and it there is any special reason for this? is this gonna
> be added to future release?

As of right now, we have no plans to add 'deflate' support.  I'm
not aware of any browsers/client that support 'deflate' rather
than 'gzip.'

My guess is that the encapsulation format is slightly different
than with gzip, but I really haven't sat down to look at the
relevant RFCs.  It might be easy, but it might be hard.

Patches welcome.  =)  -- justin