At 02:42 AM 11/11/2002, Henri Gomez wrote: >Justin Erenkrantz wrote: >>--On Friday, November 8, 2002 5:52 PM +0100 Henri Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>Some questions about mod_deflate : >>> >>>1) Why this module is not enabled by default built ? >>> compression should be on to meet HTTP recommandations ? >> >>No, that's not part of the HTTP specification per se. > >I didn't agree, they are covered in rfc2616 : > >http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.11
What Justin TRIED to say is that rfc2616 neither recommends nor requires gzip compression. It simply defines the transmission of transfer-encoding and content-encoding headers and defines the gzip method amoungst others. Justin disagreed (and I concur) that there is no such thing as meeting some "HTTP recommandations" from RFC 2616, since the RFC makes no such recommendation. However, I agree with you that we should make it trivial for the admin to enable this module. Bill
