[PLUG] HTML Whitespace Compression

[Dan Young]

Shannon C. Dealy said:
> Actually there is support for this, but it's optional and rarely used, I
> used to have my server setup for it years ago, but I found that not very
> many people were able to use it because their browsers didn't support
> it. Check the "Accept-Encoding" HTTP header field and the
> "Content-Encoding" Entity header for more info.  Also, some browsers
> support (or used to support) in their default configuration,
> uncompressing and displaying HTML web pages if they had the appropriate
> compression suffix on the file, such as: index.html.gz which would be
> automatically uncompressed and displayed. I haven't tried any of this
> for several years, so I don't know what is supported by current
> browsers.

mod_gzip for apache...

http://www.remotecommunications.com/apache/mod_gzip/

I also don't know about browser support for this. The FAQ says HTTP 1.1
compliant browsers will accept gzipped content. Everybody else fails down
to uncompressed content.

-Dan Young
-Parkrose School District