Automagic unzipping

[pier]

I wonder if there is some automagic unzipping here on FQ:
[nbsp]- Someone requests for example /foo/bar.html
[nbsp]- bar.html is gzipped to bar.html.gz
[nbsp]- server unzips bar.html.gz on the fly and outputs inner-html

Can this be done here (with .htaccess-modifications) or will this give a huge server-load ?

Pier

[Terra]

That scenario would cause too much strain on the server...[nbsp][nbsp]It would be higher than CGI resources...

I do know the newer browsers will accept gzip encoded content, and then would become the browsers responsibility to decompress it...[nbsp][nbsp]I'm not sure it's 100% rock solid, but once again - would require the server to gzip it on the fly...

Interesting thought, but no we would not allow it...

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[pier]

I do know the newer browsers will accept gzip encoded content, and then would become the browsers
responsibility to decompress it...[nbsp][nbsp]I'm not sure it's 100% rock solid, but once again - would require the server to gzip it on the fly...
Interesting thought, but no we would not allow it...


I was afraid so...
My previous host had an own httpd-deamon (XS-httpd) which did it on the fly, so a mailinglist-archive was very much reduced in size.

Pier
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