Re: mod_cache, mod_deflate and Vary: User-Agent

2009-08-28 Thread Nick Kew
On 28 Aug 2009, at 06:13, toki...@aol.com wrote: > Brian Akins of Turner Broadcasting, Inc. wrote... > > We are moving towards the 'if you say you support gzip, > then you get gzip' attitude. The only approach that makes sense. Good to hear that from folks as big as you. There isn't a bro

Re: mod_cache, mod_deflate and Vary: User-Agent

2009-08-27 Thread tokiley
inal Message- From: Akins, Brian To: dev@httpd.apache.org Sent: Thu, Aug 27, 2009 9:42 am Subject: Re: mod_cache, mod_deflate and Vary: User-Agent On 8/26/09 3:20 PM, "Paul Querna" wrote: > I would write little lua scriptlets that map user agents to two > buckets: suppo

Re: mod_cache, mod_deflate and Vary: User-Agent

2009-08-27 Thread Akins, Brian
On 8/26/09 3:20 PM, "Paul Querna" wrote: > I would write little lua scriptlets that map user agents to two > buckets: supports gzip, doesnt support gzip. store the thing in > mod_cache only twice, instead of once for every user agent. We do the same basic thing. We are moving towards the "if y

Re: mod_cache, mod_deflate and Vary: User-Agent

2009-08-27 Thread tokiley
> William A. Rowe, Jr. > > I think we blew it :) > > Vary: user-agent is not practical for correcting errant browser behavior. You have not 'blown it'. >From a certain perspective, it's the only reasonable thing to do. Everyone keeps forgetting one very important aspect of this issue and that i

Re: mod_cache, mod_deflate and Vary: User-Agent

2009-08-26 Thread Paul Querna
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:50 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > Paul Querna wrote: >> >> Yes, write a Varied header to 'hash' plugin API for mod_cache. >> >> I would write little lua scriptlets that map user agents to two >> buckets: supports gzip, doesnt support gzip.  store the thing in >> mod_cac

Re: mod_cache, mod_deflate and Vary: User-Agent

2009-08-26 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Paul Querna wrote: > > Yes, write a Varied header to 'hash' plugin API for mod_cache. > > I would write little lua scriptlets that map user agents to two > buckets: supports gzip, doesnt support gzip. store the thing in > mod_cache only twice, instead of once for every user agent. This doesn't

Re: mod_cache, mod_deflate and Vary: User-Agent

2009-08-26 Thread Paul Querna
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:47 AM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > I think we blew it :) > > Vary: user-agent is not practical for correcting errant browser behavior. > > For example; > >  User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 > > produces a myriad number of 'variant' flavors when taggi