RE: [users@httpd] Compression and Security

2005-06-27 Thread Boyle Owen
-Original Message- From: Arthur Guy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isn't it possible to compress images any further? No. A raw image from a camera or scanner is a bitmap; an array of pixels each of which contains the colour and brilliance information for that pixel. The filesize is

RE: [users@httpd] Compression and Security

2005-06-26 Thread Arthur Guy
I am not that familiar with apache, I usually use IIS and IIS instillations need a patch and filters installed before they are used, I just wanted to make sure there wasn't something I was missing with apache. Thanks for the security links Aman I will check those out. One other thing, I am

Re: [users@httpd] Compression and Security

2005-06-26 Thread Dan Trainor
Arthur Guy wrote: I am not that familiar with apache, I usually use IIS and IIS instillations need a patch and filters installed before they are used, I just wanted to make sure there wasn't something I was missing with apache. Thanks for the security links Aman I will check those out. One

Re: [users@httpd] Compression and Security

2005-06-26 Thread Aman Raheja
Don't mean to be digressing anymore from apache mailinglist and request to end this discussion about search for opensource ftp server for windows by saying, I don't know of one and also proftpd doesn't seem support M$ windoze. http://www.proftpd.org/features.html Please try some ftp or windoz

Re: [users@httpd] Compression and Security

2005-06-25 Thread Praveen Alavilli
you should check out Apache modules mod_deflate mod_security Arthur Guy wrote on 6/25/2005, 3:13 PM: There are two things I have been trying to find out about apache but I have been unable, I hope you guys can help. The first thing is compression, on my current IIS

Re: [users@httpd] Compression and Security

2005-06-25 Thread Nick Kew
Arthur Guy wrote: Does gzip compression and browser decompression support images or is it just html and text? Irrelevant. Web image formats are already compressed. You should also avoid compressing some other formats (such as PDF) or a certain crippled browser will refuse to display them.

Re: [users@httpd] Compression and Security

2005-06-25 Thread Jean-Christophe Montigny
Hello, Arthur Guy wrote: Isn't it possible to compress images any further? Try to compress 100Mb of JPEG pictures and see for yourself. I guess I am not really sure what I am asking when it comes to security, I have setup an apache server running parallel to my current IIS server but on port

Re: [users@httpd] Compression and Security

2005-06-25 Thread Aman Raheja
Here's a link talking about the Netscape issue with compressed images http://www.zope.org/Members/Mamey/mod_gzip Securing apache http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1694 http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1786 and lots more if you search google - Aman Raheja (again!!!)