Actually its both then. I've had to hack up mod_gzip to
not send compressed data if the following is true:
1. The browser is Netscape
2. The URL is a javascript file (ends in .js).
Netscape sends Accept-Encoding: gzip for javascript files
and then doesn't know what to do with them.
-Paul
> -----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
>
>
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Geoffrey Young wrote:
>
> > there's mod_gzip, available from
> > http://www.remotecommunications.com/apache/mod_gzip/
> > which I've played with and looks pretty good
> >
> > or Apache::Compress, available from CPAN, which also works
> rather nicely
> > (and is Apache::Filter ready, so you can chain PerlHandlers into it)
> >
> > 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.
>
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