From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm@polyomino.org.uk>
To: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
Cc: overseers@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: /sourceware/www is full (/www/gcc/htdocs/onlinedocs?)
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 02:07:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0403190124190.2518@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040319011212.GA21032@redhat.com>
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> One thing I notice taking up space is in /www/gcc/htdocs/onlinedocs.
> There seems to be compressed and uncompressed versions of files in this
> directory. Is it necessary to have both?
The compressed HTML versions were originally for transparently sending to
browsers supporting them. (It is clearly perceptible that old mailing
list index pages no longer get sent transparently compressed as they used
to.) At one point the PostScript versions were linked to uncompressed -
with the intent of getting the compressed versions sent transparently -
but this was changed to link to the compressed versions following a
discussion of the difficulties of getting HTTP headers that work well for
all browsers <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-08/msg01435.html>. The
tarballs have never been linked to uncompressed. The same mechanism is
used to generate the compressed versions of all these different files
without discriminating about whether particular files need them.
--
Joseph S. Myers
jsm@polyomino.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-19 1:31 UTC|newest]
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2004-03-19 1:31 ` /sourceware/www is full Christopher Faylor
2004-03-19 1:47 ` /sourceware/www is full (/www/gcc/htdocs/onlinedocs?) Christopher Faylor
2004-03-19 2:06 ` Jason Molenda
2004-03-19 2:07 ` Joseph S. Myers [this message]
2004-03-19 2:17 ` /sourceware/www is full Ian Lance Taylor
2004-03-19 7:50 ` Joseph S. Myers
2004-03-20 0:49 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-03-19 14:12 ` Christopher Faylor
2004-03-20 1:14 ` Jonathan Larmour
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2004-03-20 1:09 ` Jason Molenda
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