In the version of this I sent Friday I included HTML coding which was acted on rather than just displayed, hiding what I was trying to illustrate. The version below tries to get around this.
My original trials were with IE 5.5 (under Win98) since then I've also tried several other browsers, all under XP, with the following results as to display and apparent compression. I got the same results using the file quoted below and also with a .adp that didn't have any HTML tags. The third and fourth columns indicate whether, with compression off and on respectively, anything was displayed in the browser and the bytes-sent value from access.log Browser ACCEPT_ENCODING off/Disp:len on/Disp:len IE 5.5 gzip, deflate yes:247 no:210 IE 6.0 deflate yes:247 yes:247 Firefox 1.0.1 gzip,deflate yes:247 yes:210 Netscape 7.2 gzip,deflate yes:247 yes:210 The way I read this is that: IE 5.5 says it can handle gzip, but cannot display it, displays empty page. IE 6.0 says it cannot handle gzip and ns_adp_compress does not compress. Firefox and Netscape say they can handle gzip and in fact can. These are not the results I was expecting for IE. Can anyone suggest how to get more useful results with IE? -------- My post of Friday, February 25, amended: Can anyone offer pointers on using ns_adp_compress? The following in an .adp file results in a blank page (HTML structure tags with no body content) being returned: # Usual HTML, HEAD and BODY tags <h2>ADP page from AOLserver 4.0.10</h2> this is a test<br><br> <%= [ns_httptime [ns_time]] %> <% ns_adp_puts "<br>Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party." %> #Usual BODY and HTML end tags <% ns_adp_compress on %> However with <% ns_adp_compress off %> it returns the expected results. No error is reported to the server log. The configuration passed the make test supplied with the release. access.log shows that that length of what is being returned is a little shorter with adp_compress on. Browser is IE 5.5 [see other results above] Thanks very much, Eric Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
