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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Jobarr <jo...@herzeleid.com> on 2002/05/08 03:24:47 UTC

Mod_deflate

I have been using mod_gzip with Apache 1.3.x and I would like to continue to
compress my html, so I am looking into mod_deflate with Apache 2. I compiled
it myself and it seems to be working (running 2.0.36 on Windows XP/2000). I
know it is "experimental", but are there any real known problems with it
that would prevent me from using it? Also, with mod_gzip, I had to manually
exclude some browsers because they could not support the compression even
though they claimed they could. Is this possible with this module in its
current state or is it needed?

thanks
-Jobarr


Re: Mod_deflate

Posted by Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca>.
On Tue, 7 May 2002, Ian Holsman wrote:

> as for excluding browsers you will need to set the 'no-gzip' variable
> (via a browsermatch I guess)

Hmmm... Is that documented anywhere?

Joshua.


Re: Mod_deflate

Posted by Ian Holsman <ia...@apache.org>.

Jobarr wrote:
> I have been using mod_gzip with Apache 1.3.x and I would like to continue to
> compress my html, so I am looking into mod_deflate with Apache 2. I compiled
> it myself and it seems to be working (running 2.0.36 on Windows XP/2000). I
> know it is "experimental", but are there any real known problems with it
> that would prevent me from using it? Also, with mod_gzip, I had to manually
> exclude some browsers because they could not support the compression even
> though they claimed they could. Is this possible with this module in its
> current state or is it needed?
> 

I think mod_deflate just got moved out of experimental into filters in 
37-dev. (with some minor patches for performance added)

as for excluding browsers you will need to set the 'no-gzip' variable
(via a browsermatch I guess)

Cheers
Ian

> thanks
> -Jobarr
> 



Re: Mod_deflate

Posted by Jobarr <jo...@herzeleid.com>.
----- Original Message -----
> Try mod_gzip for Apache 2.x

But has Mod_gzip even been updated to work with the latest Apache2 API and
whatnot? I didn't think it had yet.
-Jobarr


RE: Mod_deflate

Posted by Igor Sysoev <is...@rambler-co.ru>.
On Wed, 8 May 2002, Peter J. Cranstone wrote:

> Try mod_gzip for Apache 2.x
> 
> http://www.remotecommunications.com/apache/mod_gzip/archive1.htm
> 
> There are still a number of browsers out there that do not support HTTP
> 1.1 content encoding. They only "safe" thing to do is manually exclude
> (filter) them. 

MSIE 4.x can handle gzipped content but has two seldom bugs.
mod_gzip has no way to handle them so you can only disable entirely MSIE 4.x.

Igor Sysoev
http://sysoev.ru


RE: Mod_deflate

Posted by "Peter J. Cranstone" <cr...@msn.com>.
Jobarr,

Try mod_gzip for Apache 2.x

http://www.remotecommunications.com/apache/mod_gzip/archive1.htm

There are still a number of browsers out there that do not support HTTP
1.1 content encoding. They only "safe" thing to do is manually exclude
(filter) them. 

As for how mod_deflate does this I'm not sure. It got moved out of
experimental very quickly and I'm not sure how much testing has taken
place.

Regards,


Peter J. Cranstone


-----Original Message-----
From: Jobarr [mailto:jobarr@herzeleid.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 7:25 PM
To: dev@httpd.apache.org
Subject: Mod_deflate

I have been using mod_gzip with Apache 1.3.x and I would like to
continue to
compress my html, so I am looking into mod_deflate with Apache 2. I
compiled
it myself and it seems to be working (running 2.0.36 on Windows
XP/2000). I
know it is "experimental", but are there any real known problems with it
that would prevent me from using it? Also, with mod_gzip, I had to
manually
exclude some browsers because they could not support the compression
even
though they claimed they could. Is this possible with this module in its
current state or is it needed?

thanks
-Jobarr