Daniel L. Miller wrote:
> Stefan de Konink wrote:
>> Daniel L. Miller wrote:
>>> The answers to these may be obvious - but since I'm asking they're 
>>> not obvious to me.
>>>
>>> 1.  When entering multiple extensions in a handler, what is the 
>>> correct format?  Is it:
>>>     <ext1>,<ext2>,<ext3>
>> I use this one.
> Thank you.  Still think showing this in the admin interface would be 
> beneficial for noobs like me.

Yes, some hints could be nice; I would suggest you file a request for 
enhancement here: http://code.google.com/p/cherokee/issues/list

>>> 2.  "Encoding".  Why are some of the default folders checked to allow 
>>> encoding and some not?  Why would we NOT want to allow gzip and/or 
>>> deflate on nearly every folder?
>> Because some folders could contain compressed files that will not get 
>> a better compression from gzip or deflate; cherokee is not yet able to 
>> detect if the compressed output is actually bigger than the file 
>> output and act based on it (and cache this information); it could take 
>> more server resources to compress them than we want; cherokee doesn't 
>> cache compressed output in iocache yet.
> Is there a reason Cherokee doesn't include "deflate" by default where 
> "Gzip" is enabled?  Unless we specifically know we'll be serving images 
> or compressed files, does it break anything to enable both encoders for 
> all rules (including php handlers)?

I don't know; but both algorithms could probably be suited for a 
particular task or appliance :) Fastness vs Compression ratio. And 
because most browsers accept both, you must choose what you want to achieve.


Stefan

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