sreangsu acharyya wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Dwivedi Ajay kumar wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, sreangsu acharyya wrote:
> > > Any prospect of running a compressed tcp session for
> > > browsing ?
> > most of the webservers can send the files gziped and do it if the browser
> > sends the accept-encoding: gzip header to the server.(like the netscape
> > does)
> O really!! is this the standard default. You mean the htmls will be
> sent after gzip compression. This will be great, considering the
> compressibility of html docs. How does one enable this option, could not
> manage to find it.
sadly enuf, its not a standard default. in fact, statistics shows (lost
the link) that, most web-browsers hav implemented this since last 5-6
years, but the webservers hav started adding such modules very recently
(1year or so); in fact, just around 20% of webservers!
we'll hav to wait and hope. in fact, i hope that they standardize on
bzip2 insted of gzip, bcoz for medium size files, there's no significant
change in (de)compresion time, but a significant one in the size.
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