> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Sergeant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 2:33 PM
> To: Geoffrey Young
> Cc: 'Nigel Hamilton'; mod_perl list
> Subject: RE: More Speed -> mod_perl Module for HTML Compression
>
>
> > just beware that not all browsers that claim to accept gzip
> compression
> > actually do...
>
> No its the other way around. Not all browsers that can accept
> gzip send
> out Accept-Encoding: gzip. Notably early versions of IE4.
I was basing that on discussions on the mod_gzip list and the following
(from the mod_gzip code)
* 5. Many browsers ( such as Netscape 4.75 for UNIX ) are unable
* to handle Content-encoding only for specific kinds of HTML
* transactions such as Style Sheets even though the browser
* says it is HTTP 1.1 compliant and is suppying the standard
* 'Accept-encoding: gzip' field. According to the IETF
* specifications any user-agent that says it can accept
* encodings should be able to do so for all types of HTML
* transactions but this is simply not the current reality.
* Some will, some won't... even if they say they can.
I don't have any first hand experience with it, though...
--Geoff
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