On 15 Aug 2006, at 08:49, NextGen$ wrote: > * Ian Clarke <ian at revver.com> [2006-08-14 21:59:30]: >> On 14 Aug 2006, at 14:10, Matthew Toseland wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 03:55:06PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: >>>> On 12 Aug 2006, at 12:36, Matthew Toseland wrote: >>>>> Whatever happened to maximizing usability? >>>> >>>> Imposing a compression format that may be ill suited to what is >>>> being >>>> inserted doesn't maximize usability, it simply means that the >>>> node is >>>> meddling in a client issue in which it lacks the competence to >>>> meddle. I can't think of any other data transmission software that >>>> takes it upon itself to compress data by default, about which it >>>> knows nothing, by default (BitTorrent doesn't, Secure Copy doesn't, >>>> LimeWire doesn't, Kazaa didn't, even Apache doesn't). > > Well, you're wrong here : apache provides compression support > through a > plugin and the default distribution bundles and enable it.
Well, you are the first person I have asked that said it was enabled by default, and I don't see deflate.load anywhere in /etc/apache2/ mods-enabled on Emu. Even if it is enabled by default, if they follow any of the recommended configurations in the Apache manual [1] then it will not compress all file types by default, which is what I object to primarily in this proposal, because it leads to trying to compress uncompressible files. [1] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_deflate.html Ian. Ian Clarke: Co-Founder & Chief Scientist Revver, Inc. phone: 323.871.2828 | personal blog - http://locut.us/blog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060815/abc29f50/attachment.html>
