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in thread Size of a webpage

Hey this is Perl..... If you read the Docs you will see:

It is strongly recommended to use Apache::CompressClientFixup handler in order to avoid compression for known buggy browsers. Apache::CompressClientFixup package can be found on CPAN

This works with any of the gzip compression modules and does not serve gzip compressed content to buggy browsers. The articles you quote are quoted in its docs. So you can have you cake and eat it.

cheers

tachyon

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Re^4: Size of a webpage
by dont_you (Hermit) on Jun 18, 2004 at 07:48 UTC
    As version 0.07 of CompressClientFixup, documentation states that "This version of the handler does not restrict compression for MSIE over HTTP".
    So, this version still send compressed content to buggy browsers.
    Anyway, It had no sense to fix the module to restrict compression to MSIE 5.5 and 6 (maybe 85% of users? or 95%?), in that case simply don't use compression.
    I warn about this because playing with gzipped pages gave me a big big headache.
    Regards,
    José.
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