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On Thursday 27 November 2003 05:00 pm, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
Since HTML is text, it *could* be compressed -- why it isn't is
something I am at a loss
to understand. Note that IIUC Linux already
is able to decompress it.
Many web servers do compress. For apache, look into mod_gzip, and other servers have the capability as well. Whether or not it's turned on is a question for the administrators; many don't realize it's an option and a few have specific reasons for not wanting it, but most who know about it turn it on. There's no danger of presenting compressed data to browsers that can't handle it, since the server only compresses if the browser indicated that it can accept the compressed data.
Some sites I know of that do use it are: Google, slashdot.org, buy.com, cinemark.com, walmart.com. I just checked about 30 sites and came up with those five. Don't know if that ratio holds overall.
That is interesting. However, what I had it mind was that your ISP should offer that service.
-- JRT
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