On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Graham Leggett wrote: > I have attached a small filter module that strips leading whitespace > from text files. This would typically be used to remove the "indenting" > whitespace found inside HTML files, resulting in a significant reduction > in network traffic for some sites. I didn't bother to include trailing > whitespace removal, as this involved buffering (leading whitespace > removal requires no buffering).
Well, we've had people submit modules in the past that stripped the extraneous whitespace from HTML files, and we rejected them. Check the archives for messages from a guy named fabio rohrich, who wrote a module called mod_blank to see why that might have been. I don't completely remember the details. --Cliff
