Hi chris, Thx for the reply. just after posting the question i tried the same steps and the files are getting gzip.
Thank you, bala. On 6/11/09, Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bala, > > On 6/10/2009 8:37 AM, balachandra maddina wrote: >> I'm wondering if its possible to refer [to] a javascript file something >> like >> <script ... src ='scriptfile.js.gz'> in a html page where the script file >> is >> located in one of the tomcat webapps? > > Sure, you can do that. It just won't do what you expect it to. > >> if not how to send a gzip javascript file to browser? any help would be >> appreciated. > > Try enabling gzip compression in the <Connector>. > > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/http.html#Standard%20Implementation > > Look for the "compression" attribute. You'll probably have to change the > compressablemimeType setting from the default to include text/css. > > I don't think there's a way to trick Tomcat into using a pre-compressed > image of a file in this way. > > Alternatively, you could probably do something like the following: > create a servlet that does nothing but serve a file off the disk (you > might even extend the DefaultServlet). Make sure that your servlet reads > your gzip'd CSS file and serves it without modification, except to add a > "Content-Encoding" header. > > Remember to ensure that the client has "Accept-Encoding: gzip" set in > the request headers... otherwise you will be serving a file that the > browser claims it can't read. > > Good luck, > - -chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkowG2MACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PC98ACgnQZ2/PKp5QgYsQJkTgPYGVep > vKgAniqftK7UQndCyoax6Fb+pR3C+vwl > =irZW > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org