[PATCHv2] httpd: add option to send files using gzip content-encoding if available

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Vladimir" == Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.com> writes:

 >> 
 >>  Vladimir> Just FYI, Internet Explorer <7 sends Accept-Encoding: gzip
 >>  Vladimir> but cannot correctly process gzipped response. You should
 >>  Vladimir> analyze also User-Agent: and conditionally skip gzipping.
 >> 
 >> Really? I have an IE6 running here in wine, and it seems to work ok:
 >> 

 Vladimir> Consider modern nginx (and I assume apache also) setups which still
 Vladimir> inhibits gzipping for IE <7.

Hmm, don't see anything in mod_deflate.c:

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/trunk/modules/filters/mod_deflate.c?view=markup

I couldn't find anything in nginx either, but I'm not really familiar
with that cod base, so I might just have overlooked it.

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Bye, Peter Korsgaard