>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Christoph> This wont work as we already have said again and
Christoph> again. You are modifying the HTTP protocol with this
Christoph> and creating a new .html.gz extension in essence. And
Christoph> sometimes the web browser will get those files
Christoph> compressed and sometimes not.
The gzipped files are served as application/x-gzip, and an entry in
"/etc/mailcap" tells the browser how to uncompress it prior to
display rendering. The protocol isn't changed at all.
Jim> Christoph seems to be advocating:
Jim> 3) Store HTML files compressed, and don't munge the links -
Jim> Lynx (and others) might work without a web server if they
Jim> were modified - Netscape wouldn't work without a web server -
Jim> other web browsers will work, if they use a web server such
Jim> as boa, or a web server and dwww
Christoph> I only advocated this as a compromise. I am for #1. And
Christoph> I would go further and abolish all compression
Christoph> everywhere. Compression should only be done if its
Christoph> transparent for all apps (e2compr or zlib?). I have
Christoph> seen so many broken packages because of manpage
Christoph> compression etc etc. The clean solution would be to
Christoph> stop this once and for all.
Please read my earlier post regarding Apache run from `inetd' (or
better, from `xinetd'), and mod_rewrite. I think we could set up an
.htaccess file for "/usr/doc" with some rewrite rules that would make
it so that if someone clicks a link in a Debian manual, the link will
be to http://localhost/doc/thing.html and the mod_rewrite will make it
so `apache' will grab that if it exists or grab thing.html.gz if /that/
exists, and failing either, will grab http://www.debian.org/doc/thing.html,
where the similar thing happens; the docs there can be gzipped as
well.
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