[e2e] Compression of web pages

[Woojune Kim]

Thanks for the note. 

But, correct me if I'm wrong, this is more of a passive indication saying I can receive gziped files. What I was wondering if there was a way for the user to indicate proactively, "Please compress these HTML files when you send them to me." 

The original question was triggered by how we can allow wireless internet users to get compressed web pages. It seems only by having the web proxy modify the http data can we get what I was thinking about.

thanks

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David G. Andersen [mailto:dga at lcs.mit.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 11:21 AM
> To: Woojune Kim
> Cc: Li, Jiang (Leo); end2end-interest at postel.org
> Subject: Re: [e2e] Compression of web pages
> 
> 
> > > 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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