> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 16 February 2002 22:53
> Justin Erenkrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 06:59:40PM +0100, Sander Striker wrote:
> > > > Wow! Obviously the code/default config need to be extremely
> > > > conservative!
> > >
> > > Yes. But browsers change (evolve to better things we hope), so config has
> > > my preference. Hardcoding in default rules is badness IMHO. But maybe that's
> > > just me.
> >
> > -1 if these restrictions are hardcoded in the module like it was
> > before Sander's patch. These problems should be handled by the
> > configuration of mod_deflate not by hardcoding rules.
>
> I guess I don't follow this about restrictions being hardcoded in the
> module. When you say "restriction" I just see default behavior. A
> default behavior is hardcoded into Apache or modules for so many
> things.
>
> I wonder what the real disagreement is... It is hard to tell exactly
> who wants what. It looks like there is violent agreement in some
> areas.
>
> Are these the choices so far?
>
> .. mod_deflate shoud stay as it was (only compress text/html, can't
> add more mime types
>
> (I don't see that anybody was in favor of this.)
Me neither.
> .. mod_deflate defaults to only compressing text/html (and may perhaps
> have further restrictions in the interest of been fool-proof) in
> case the admin takes the bare minimum steps to enable it, but a
> directive will be available so that admins can turn on compression
> for more mime types
>
> and I guess there are subchoices here on whether the default
> set of directives in httpd.conf would be very conservative or would
> simply turn on compression for everything we think is safe until we
> find out from admins that some browser doesn't do this or that
> correctly
This is what this little disagreement seems to be about.
> It would be helpful to some of us if, forgetting the vetos for a
> moment, people could put a concise wording of their position in the
> STATUS file and allow folks to indicate how they feel about it. (Can
> you tell that I can't keep everything straight?)
Ok, I can't commit to STATUS, but I can tell you my take on things:
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE, should compress all by default. There is an
exception which is 'gzip-only-text/html' which can be set on browser
matches. We do _not_ put a SetOutputFilter DEFLATE line in the std
config.
In the std config we should have:
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilter DEFLATE text/html
...
</IfModule>
We would need to adjust AddOutputFilter for this so it can add filters
on content type aswell as on extension.
Now, if you wish to enable compression for everything, like for a
subversion repository, you would do:
<Location /some/subversion/repos>
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
...
</Location>
Sander
