Re: How to use a gzip javascript file in a webapp running under tomcat
Hi chris, Thx for the reply. just after posting the question i tried the same steps and the files are getting gzip. Thank you, bala. On 6/11/09, Christopher Schultz ch...@christopherschultz.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bala, On 6/10/2009 8:37 AM, balachandra maddina wrote: I'm wondering if its possible to refer [to] a javascript file something like script ... src ='scriptfile.js.gz' in a html page where the script file is located in one of the tomcat webapps? Sure, you can do that. It just won't do what you expect it to. if not how to send a gzip javascript file to browser? any help would be appreciated. Try enabling gzip compression in the Connector. http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/http.html#Standard%20Implementation Look for the compression attribute. You'll probably have to change the compressablemimeType setting from the default to include text/css. I don't think there's a way to trick Tomcat into using a pre-compressed image of a file in this way. Alternatively, you could probably do something like the following: create a servlet that does nothing but serve a file off the disk (you might even extend the DefaultServlet). Make sure that your servlet reads your gzip'd CSS file and serves it without modification, except to add a Content-Encoding header. Remember to ensure that the client has Accept-Encoding: gzip set in the request headers... otherwise you will be serving a file that the browser claims it can't read. Good luck, - -chris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkowG2MACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PC98ACgnQZ2/PKp5QgYsQJkTgPYGVep vKgAniqftK7UQndCyoax6Fb+pR3C+vwl =irZW -END PGP SIGNATURE- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
How to use a gzip javascript file in a webapp running under tomcat
Hi There, Im wondering if its possible to referr a javascript file something like script ... src ='scriptfile.js.gz' in a html page where the script file is located in one of the tomcat webapps? if not how to send a gzip javascript file to browser? any help would be appreciated. Thx, bala.
Re: How to use a gzip javascript file in a webapp running under tomcat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bala, On 6/10/2009 8:37 AM, balachandra maddina wrote: I'm wondering if its possible to refer [to] a javascript file something like script ... src ='scriptfile.js.gz' in a html page where the script file is located in one of the tomcat webapps? Sure, you can do that. It just won't do what you expect it to. if not how to send a gzip javascript file to browser? any help would be appreciated. Try enabling gzip compression in the Connector. http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/http.html#Standard%20Implementation Look for the compression attribute. You'll probably have to change the compressablemimeType setting from the default to include text/css. I don't think there's a way to trick Tomcat into using a pre-compressed image of a file in this way. Alternatively, you could probably do something like the following: create a servlet that does nothing but serve a file off the disk (you might even extend the DefaultServlet). Make sure that your servlet reads your gzip'd CSS file and serves it without modification, except to add a Content-Encoding header. Remember to ensure that the client has Accept-Encoding: gzip set in the request headers... otherwise you will be serving a file that the browser claims it can't read. Good luck, - -chris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkowG2MACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PC98ACgnQZ2/PKp5QgYsQJkTgPYGVep vKgAniqftK7UQndCyoax6Fb+pR3C+vwl =irZW -END PGP SIGNATURE- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
