Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 14:44:59 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: [opendos] Wishlist v2.0
In-Reply-To: <199703280100.UAA24587@delorie.com>
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On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, DJ Delorie wrote:

> > then.  The only thing that really needs to be thought about is
> > how the compression/decompression of the HTML is going to work to
> > save space.  The browser will probably have to be modified to
> > accept a type something like:
> > 
> > Content-type: octet-stream/html-zip
> > 
> > Or something like that.  Then UNZIP is called transparently and
> > the page is viewed.
> > 
> > What does everyone else think? 
> 
> The HTTP standard already defines a way of compressing data.
> You'd see headers like this:
> 
> Content-type: text/html
> Content-transfer-encoding: x-gzip

Really?  I didn't know that!  So, is this a transparent
server-compression-browser-decompression transaction, or could I
have a file called: index.html.gz as my web page, and then view
it as if it were index.html?  If this is the case, then THIS IS
REALLY COOL!

Has anyone tried this?


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