On 29 Jun 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: >>>>>> "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.
This is the earlier approach: Again: I dont have /etc/mailcap on my Win95 workstation nor on my MacOS machines. And I strongly object to reconfiguring the whole world of Web-Browsers just to accomodate reading Debian Documentation. This is a non-standard extension of the http protocol! > 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. .htaccess is not supported by all web-servers. boa does not support it. --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
