Re: Apache handling of .txt.gz

[Jason Molenda <jason-gcclist@molenda.com>]

On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:17:54PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> 
> I haven't loaded mod_gzip since we upgraded sourceware.  I've been sort
> of wondering if someone would notice and complain.  I suspect that this
> is related.
> 

The fact that mod_gzip isn't loaded leads me to believe it's not related,
but I haven't really looked at all.  Geoff's explanation is as likely as
anything I can think of.

The lack of mod_gzip isn't something people will notice unless they
perpetually bring up old mailing list index pages or documentation,
and even then they're more likely to assume the net is just slow.

For instance, http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-01/index.html is 370kbytes.
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-01/index.html.gz is 40kbytes.  
The end user will never realize that the page loaded 10x faster
than it really should have when they get the .gz, but users over
slow links are going to be a lot happier getting the compressed
version.

The same thing is done for all the documentation in gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs
(and maybe the same for gdb's as well).


J