[whatwg] WA 1.0 and WF 2

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Mon Nov 14 15:39:41 PST 2005


On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 19:14 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Simon Pieters wrote:
> > > 
> > > I would prefer if the spec was gzipped
> > 
> > In theory this should be happening already. The server supports gzip 
> > [content] encoding.
> 
> Firefox 1.0.7 LiveHTTPHeaders would indicate to the contrary -- Firefox 
> is sending an Accept-Encoding header, but the response doesn't seem to 
> be gzip encoded. The Server line shows mod_gzip in the extensions, but 
> for some reason it isn't gzipping the spec.

I tried to work out why this was happening over the weekend, and failed. 
It seems the only things that are getting gzip-encoded are the return 
values of scripts. If anyone has any experience getting mod_gzip to work, 
and they would like to help with this, please contact me off-list.

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