Bo Berglund wrote: [...]
If I understand correctly, the files are already compressed on the original server (the file on disk is abc.xml.gz, as opposed to abc.xml), right ?It seems like there is a setting in the Apache server to change so that the server along with the actual file data also sends "something" that triggers the expansion. What this could be I don't know, and therefore I am asking here.
Then it probably has something to do with the HTTP headers sent in the response. Apache sends the response to the browser, with a HTTP header like
Content-type: application/gzipor something similar, so that the browser believes that the .gz file is the original content, and proposes to the user to download it as such and save it to disk.
Instead, what you want is that the browser would "believe" that the gzipped file is only a way to transport the original content more efficiently, and that the real content is the xml file, unzipped.
So you want the response to be sent with HTTP headers like Content-type: text/xml Content-transport-encoding: gzippedso that the browser would unpack the zipped file and present the XML document.
I am not quite sure of the exactness of the header names or form above, but it's the idea. I am unfortunately also not quite sure how to configure Apache to set the headers that way. It probably requires some module in-between. I'm sure a neat little mod_perl module would do fine here, but that may not be what you're looking for, and there might be a simpler way using Apache directives only.
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