Hello, Some Webservers deliver compressed Websites if the client supports that. This means instead of putting out the .html files directly, the files get compressed through gzip (with Content-Encoding: gzip) before sending them to the client.
For Apache 1.3.x there is a module available (mod_gzip) to do this (i think Apache 2.0.x has built support for that). If a website contains much text or html files this method will significantly reduce the traffic. The attached patch adds the option --accept-encoding-gzip to wget. If you enable this option the line: `Accent-Encoding: gzip' is added to the Header wget sends to the server. If the server responds with `Content-Encoding: gzip' the received data will be decompressed with gzip -d -c -. Note: In my test installation Apache responds with `Content-Encoding: gzip' also on .tar.gz-files, so an additional check is made: if the Content-Type ends with "/x-gzip" no decompression will occur. karsten
wget-1.9.1---1.9.1-gzip.patch.gz
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