On Thursday 23 August 2001 09:38 pm, Robert Collins wrote:
> Vary plays a large role - the identity encoding for transfer encodings
> can vary in actual encoding due to content encoding.
>
> Note that the apache mod-gzip does content encoding not transfer
> encoding. Content transcoding can be a neat thing, but it interferes
> with the end to end model for http - transfer encoding was introduced to
> allow proxies in the transmission path to still encode things
> appropriately without affecting that end to end model...
Ahh... that was my hangup.
Will the new infrastructure allow for handling content-encoding at a later
time? (I can see this would be a bad idea for a cache, but it would be
very useful and logical on an httpd accel.)
-- Brian
Received on Thu Aug 23 2001 - 20:14:13 MDT
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