[Wylug-help] mod_gzip

[mikeb@gbdirect.co.uk]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 08:10:54PM +0100, Geoff Richards wrote:
>
> I think it's possible to turn it on only for HTML pages, which shouldn't
> cause problems.  I haven't tried this, but I found a webpage,
> unfortunately in German, which shows some example Apache config to do
> compression only for things that won't break browsers.  It has stuff
> like this:
>
>    # JA:   HTML-Dokumente
>      mod_gzip_item_include         file       \.html$
>
>    # NEIN: Include-Dateien/JavaScript & CSS (wegen Netscape4-bugs)
>      mod_gzip_item_exclude         file       \.js$
>      mod_gzip_item_exclude         file       \.css$
>
> Now you can have fun trying to translate the comments.  The
> page is here:
>
>    http://www.schroepl.net/projekte/mod_gzip/config.htm
>
> qef

The problem that we had with Netscape 4 and early-ish versions of IE
was that IFRAMES screwed up even with HTML contents. That may be bogus
and old-hat by now.

Mike
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