On Aug 1, 2011, at 02:16, Manuel Lemos wrote: > Anyway, another odd thing is that the client always sends a request header > saying it can handle HTTP compression but SubVersion servers seem to never > compress responses. > > Given than a typical gzip encoding can compress text data about 5 times, it > seemed to me there is a great opportunity to make SubVersion HTTP server > accesses much faster, but that opportunity is not being addressed because > SubVersion HTTP servers do not compress responses. Again I maybe missing > something here.
I believe that's something you can set up in your httpd.conf if desired. It's a feature of Apache and not specific to (nor configurable from) Subversion.