VanLUG Email Archive
Andrew Daviel (andrew@andrew.triumf.ca)
Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:08:47 -0800 (PST)
Netscape for Win95 and IE5 (earlier??) finally support gzipped HTML, I see
(Netscape for Unix has done for years), and I was wondering about
compressing some of the archive.
THere's a demo at http://vancouver-webpages.com/vanlug/1998-8gz/
which comes to about 5.2Mb compared to
http://vancouver-webpages.com/vanlug/1998-8/ at 13.8Mb
I don't know whether search engines can deal with this, though. Mine does
(well, it's supposed to) but who knows about the main ones. It comes
across as:
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Encoding: gzip
If you have a fast machine on a slow link, it should be a marked
improvement. If you have a slow machine on a fast link, perhaps a
disimprovement... (386 on @Home ??)
Mph; my local search utility (Perl regexp based, and probably slow as all
** on 2000 messages) won't understand it....
Andrew
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