[e2e] Compression of web pages

[David G. Andersen]

> > I was wondering though, wouldn't it be more efficient if 
> > the web client were able to request "compressed web pages" in 
> > the initial HTTP request ? So instead of having specialized 

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:57:33AM -0400, Woojune Kim mooed:
> How does the client indicate this to the server ? And vice versa ?
> Do you click on special tags ? Or is it in the HTTP Request message itself ?

  Via accept-encoding: gzip.  You can use something like mod_gzip to do
dynamic compression of the webpages on the server end;  if you're
concerned about server overhead, it can also serve up pre-compressed
pages.  There are also some PHP addons that can provide this functionality
for dynamically generated HTML.

  It works nicely.  It's been around for years.  Almost all browsers 
support it.

  -Dave

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