[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug MacEachern) wrote:
>On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Ken Williams wrote:
>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stas Bekman) wrote:
>>
>> >On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Mark Hewis wrote:
>> >
>> >> it would seem to be quite straight forward to implement a handler
>> >> to gzip all output html files depending on the allowed mime-types
>> >> and/or user_agent. This would reduce many pages by up to a factor
>> >> of 10 in size.
>> >>
>> >> 1) Is anyone already doing?
>> >> 2) If not why not?
>> >> 3) what borwsers would accept html files in a gzipped format
>> >
>> >it's there for a long time:
>> >Apache::Gzip
>> >Apache::GzipChain
>>
>> Actually, as far as I know there's no Apache::Gzip.
>
>close, there is an Apache::GZip in the eagle book and code available
>modperl.com
Darn. Or perhaps: cool. Is it possible for me to usurp this module?
The Apache::Gzip module I've been working on has the same goals and same
purpose as the one in the eagle, but a bit of a different interface and
a very different implementation inside. It's reasonable that if the
only thing changing is the interface (can I say that with a straight
face?), the module could be kept the same. Doug, what do you think?
I assume it would be a bad idea to have two modules, an Apache::GZip
(from the book) and an Apache::Gzip (on CPAN). Or might that be okay,
if notes were added to the docs for each?
-Ken
