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On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Satya wrote:
> >client side. I have all my rfc's and howto's gzipped, and read them using
> >lynx and apache.
>
> I do the same, without Apache.
yep. basically, it depends on what you are doing.
lynx can understand how to handle local gzipped files.
otoh, when making a request to a web-server, the client normally sends
some headers which says what all encodings it can understand. now, if the
client says (yes, i do understand gzip-format), it is upto the server to
do something with this information. it can gzip(or bzip or whatever) them
and send, with content-type field modified appropriately.
--
jaju
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