Ian Clarke wrote: > Well, you are the first person I have asked that said it was enabled by > default, and I don't see deflate.load anywhere > in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled on Emu. > > Even if it is enabled by default, if they follow any of the recommended > configurations in the Apache manual [1] then it will not compress all > file types by default, which is what I object to primarily in this > proposal, because it leads to trying to compress uncompressible files. > > [1] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_deflate.html
Yes, but on that same page: "Some popular browsers cannot handle compression of all content so you may want to set the gzip-only-text/html note to 1 to only allow html files to be compressed (see below)." In other words, the *reason* for this, is compatibility. A problem Freenet does not have to work around in this case. --Ken.
