Hi
16 Feb 2001, Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
B> Why don't we just add gziped support to Arachne?
GREAT idea !!!
B> Then good servers (Apache for instance) will compress the file
B> (atleast I assume that's what it does) and send it to the browser for
B> decompression.
Does that work for files other than HTML as well ??
(I mean does apache for instance have the ability to compress images (BMP
...) as well ?? )
B> BMP files should be compressed almost as good with gzip as with pkzip
B> and it is a lot easier.
100% agree ... and IMHO there is also gzip/gunzip for DOS
B> Still it will not help the poor bastards that don't have such support
B> (both NS and IE has it since a few versions back IIRC).
REALLY ?? IE does support this ??
Maybe this can be triggered by the user agent string ...
or how does the server know, that the client is able to process gzipped
files ??
B> //Bernie
CU, Ricsi
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