On Monday 04 Aug 2003 17:09, Ian Clarke wrote:

> I suspect the ratio between HTML and non-HTML data will be more-or-less
> constant irrespective of the total amount of WWW information - the point
> still remains that much time will be wasted trying to compress
> uncompressable data unless the client looks at the MIME-types to
> determine suitability for compression.

I completely agree. This is precisely why I suggested detecting mime types and 
skipping compression on files that are already compressed.

Gordan
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