... |You would be asking for | |https://exmaple.com/whatever/ls.1 | |and with Accept-Encoding: gzip in the http header, and the |webserver would then look if it has a file | |/whatever/ls.1.gz | |(instead of without .gz) in its document tree and send you that, with |"Content-Encoding: gzip" http header.
As an outsider i find this thread very amusing. As you all know the normal approach is to have a cache directory where some "compress" module performs on-the-fly storage if the client asks for some file, accepts compression, and the compressed version yet does not exist. Funnily i once got not even an answer when i asked for static compression, since on-the-fly compression was already available, "so what", i have forgotten which webserver that has been. Cleanup via cron anyhow. Now something for Theo, from the webserver i use. #if defined HAVE_ZLIB_H && defined HAVE_LIBZ # define USE_ZLIB # include <zlib.h> #endif #ifndef Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION #define Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION -1 #endif #ifndef MAX_WBITS #define MAX_WBITS 15 #endif #if defined HAVE_BZLIB_H && defined HAVE_LIBBZ2 # define USE_BZ2LIB /* we don't need stdio interface */ # define BZ_NO_STDIO # include <bzlib.h> #endif #if defined HAVE_BROTLI_ENCODE_H && defined HAVE_BROTLI # define USE_BROTLI # include <brotli/encode.h> #endif #if defined HAVE_ZSTD_H && defined HAVE_ZSTD # define USE_ZSTD # include <zstd.h> #endif #if defined HAVE_SYS_MMAN_H && defined HAVE_MMAP && defined ENABLE_MMAP #define USE_MMAP --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
