> Sergey wrote... > That's new to me that browsers don't cache stuff that has Vary only on > Accept-Encoding - can you post some statistics or describe the test you ran?
Test results and statistics... Apache DEV forum... http://www.pubbs.net/200908/httpd/55434-modcache-moddeflate-and-vary-user-agent.html apache-modgzip forum... http://marc.info/?l=apache-modgzip&m=103958533520502&w=2 Etc, etc. Lots of discussion about this has taken place over on the SQUID forums as well. > As for *all* content types, I don't think we're talking about compressing > images > and it's relatively easy to create a white-list to have gzip on for by > default. Apache's own mod_deflate docs show how to exclude images. That's a no-brainer. It's the OTHER mime types that get hairy. > The question regarding support in browsers actually is very serious too and > I'd love > to see statistics for that too - it sounds too scary and middle-ages to me. You must be new to this sort of thing. See links above and read the MANY related threads on the SQUID forum. > I didn't get this impression from all the talks about gzip and research > that guys from Google did, for example, when they were looking for a source > of > lower gzip rates (it turned out to be antivirus software stripping > Accept-encoding headers). I think I know the Google R/D you are referring to and it was almost a joke. There was a LOT of research they did NOT do and they made many assumptions that are simply NOT TRUE in the REAL WORLD. > Thank you, > Sergey You're welcome Kevin
