* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> So would it be a reasonable idea to make Apache generate some header like
> "X-Content-length-decoded" and make this one contain the original
> "Content-length" before any HTTP content encoding is to be applied?
> (The header would only be sent if a content encoding been applied, of
> course.)

Yep, it would. But it's quite impossible without buffering the body, which
isn't done and desired. Additionally...

> P.S.: Of course mod_gzip would be happy to support this mechanism as well,
> so if Apache would implement it, mod_gzip would try to be compatible to
> it; yet, mod_gzip wouldn't dare to invent such a thing on its own...

... the warning is about *input decompression*, i.e. for authors auf cgi
scripts or the like which handle decompressed post data.

nd

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