* Ian Clarke <ian at revver.com> [2006-08-15 12:17:01]: > On 15 Aug 2006, at 08:49, NextGen$ wrote: > >* Ian Clarke <ian at revver.com> [2006-08-14 21:59:30]: > >>On 14 Aug 2006, at 14:10, Matthew Toseland wrote: > >> > >>>On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 03:55:06PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > >>>>On 12 Aug 2006, at 12:36, Matthew Toseland wrote: > >>>>>Whatever happened to maximizing usability? > >>>> > >>>>Imposing a compression format that may be ill suited to what is > >>>>being > >>>>inserted doesn't maximize usability, it simply means that the > >>>>node is > >>>>meddling in a client issue in which it lacks the competence to > >>>>meddle. I can't think of any other data transmission software that > >>>>takes it upon itself to compress data by default, about which it > >>>>knows nothing, by default (BitTorrent doesn't, Secure Copy doesn't, > >>>>LimeWire doesn't, Kazaa didn't, even Apache doesn't). > > > >Well, you're wrong here : apache provides compression support > >through a > >plugin and the default distribution bundles and enable it. > > 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 >
nextgens at emu:~$ rgrep gzip /etc/apache* /etc/apache/modules.conf:LoadModule gzip_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_gzip.so /etc/apache/mime.types:# Note: Compression schemes like "gzip", "bzip", and "compress" are not /etc/apache/modules.conf.dpkg-old:LoadModule gzip_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_gzip.so grep: /etc/apache/vlogger-dbi.conf: Permission denied /etc/apache/httpd.conf:AddIconByEncoding (CMP,/icons/compressed.gif) x-compress x-gzip /etc/apache/httpd.conf:AddEncoding x-gzip gz tgz /etc/apache/httpd.conf:AddIconByEncoding (CMP,/icons/ark.png) x-compress x-gzip /etc/apache/httpd.conf:AddIconByEncoding (CMP,/icons/ark.png) x-compress x-gzip /etc/apache/httpd.conf:AddIconByEncoding (CMP,/icons/ark.png) x-compress x-gzip /etc/apache/httpd.conf:AddIconByEncoding (CMP,/icons/ark.png) x-compress x-gzip /etc/apache/httpd.conf:AddIconByEncoding (CMP,/icons/ark.png) x-compress x-gzip /etc/apache/httpd.conf:AddIconByEncoding (CMP,/icons/ark.png) x-compress x-gzip /etc/apache2/magic:# compress, gzip, pack, compact, huf, squeeze, crunch, freeze, yabba, whap, etc. /etc/apache2/magic:# gzip (GNU zip, not to be confused with [Info-ZIP/PKWARE] zip archiver) /etc/apache2/magic:0 string \037\213 application/octet-stream x-gzip /etc/apache2/magic:# According to gzip.h, this is the correct byte order for packed data. /etc/apache2/magic:#0 string \037\236 Frozen file 1.0 (or gzip 0.5) grep: /etc/apache2/ssl/old/bugs.cematics.com.pem: Permission denied grep: /etc/apache2/ssl/old/emu.freenetproject.org.pem: Permission denied grep: /etc/apache2/ssl/old/bugs.freenetproject.org.pem: Permission denied grep: /etc/apache2/ssl/bugs.cematics.com.pem: Permission denied grep: /etc/apache2/ssl/emu.freenetproject.org.pem: Permission denied grep: /etc/apache2/ssl/bugs.freenetproject.org.pem: Permission denied /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:AddIconByEncoding (CMP,/icons/compressed.gif) x-compress x-gzip /etc/apache2/apache2.conf:AddEncoding x-gzip gz tgz grep: /etc/apache2/vlogger-dbi.conf: Permission denied It's enabled for both versions :) NextGen$
