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Andrew Daviel (andrew@daviel.ml.org)
Sun, 17 Jan 1999 05:01:03 -0800 (PST)
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Russell Krywolt wrote:
> I'm running Netscape 4.02 on win95 and it doesn't support compressed HTML.
> Perhaps it's only NS4.5?
>
> IE 4 (4.72.3110.8/40bit) supports it.....not that I knew that compressed HTML
> existed...but I do now, thanks. Have you played with it much? Does it
> work on ANY compressed file..ie: compressed Java classes?
AFIK it works on anything. Apache parses the .gz on the end of the
filename I think and generates the Content-Encoding header, regardless of
Content-Type. Methinks that the latest browsers send Accept-Encoding so
that one can do content negotiation, but I haven't tried that with
compression, only language and image type. This (gzip) worked in Mosaic
X11 way back and I guess Netscape inherited it on the Unix side.
I have some recollection that it got written into the VRML spec. so that
compliant VRML browsers must understand gzip ...
Andrew Daviel
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