Bo Berglund wrote:
[...]
It seems like there is a setting in the Apache server to change so
that the server along with the actual file data also sends "something"
that triggers the expansion. What this could be I don't know, and
therefore I am asking here.
If I understand correctly, the files are already compressed on the
original server (the file on disk is abc.xml.gz, as opposed to abc.xml),
right ?
Then it probably has something to do with the HTTP headers sent in the
response. Apache sends the response to the browser, with a HTTP header like
Content-type: application/gzip
or something similar, so that the browser believes that the .gz file is
the original content, and proposes to the user to download it as such
and save it to disk.
Instead, what you want is that the browser would "believe" that the
gzipped file is only a way to transport the original content more
efficiently, and that the real content is the xml file, unzipped.
So you want the response to be sent with HTTP headers like
Content-type: text/xml
Content-transport-encoding: gzipped
so that the browser would unpack the zipped file and present the XML
document.
I am not quite sure of the exactness of the header names or form above,
but it's the idea. I am unfortunately also not quite sure how to
configure Apache to set the headers that way. It probably requires some
module in-between. I'm sure a neat little mod_perl module would do fine
here, but that may not be what you're looking for, and there might be a
simpler way using Apache directives only.
Hope this helps anyway,
André
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