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http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39727 ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-10-02 12:54 ------- (In reply to comment #15) > Because you can not exchange the gzip:ed variant with the identity encoded > variant wihout causing breakage. The two do not mean the same thing to a > recipient who do not know how to handle gzip. Bugzilla is the wrong place for this discussion. Should be on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only a recipient that can handle gzip will be served the gzipped version. > The two is only semantically equivalent for a recipient capable of handling > gzip, but not to HTTP in general as HTTP do not guarantee clients can handle > gzip. HTTP provides a separate mechanism for negotiating that. > > If they were semantically equivalent then there would be no need for > conditional > mod_gzip compression, or the use of Vary, at least not other than to reduce > the > load on the server under peak load... Huh? Those exist precisely because we need to cater for different clients. -- Configure bugmail: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
