downloading web pages made faster

[Shawn Willden]

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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.

Shawn.
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