Antwort: RE: [Mod_gzip] mod_gzip & Aventail ExtraWeb

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Hi Joe,


> It's my understanding that Aventail is basically a rewrite
> of mod_proxy, so hopefully it has no more of a footprint
> that stock mod_proxy does.
> I don't know if the content-encoding comes after mod_proxy
> in outbound traffic.  If so, I would think we have a much
> better chance of success.
> I assume that Aventail is Apache 1.3, at least the version
> we're using.

Oh, I think I got it finally.

Until here I thought of Aventail as being some separate
server. But if this is a modified Apache, and you are
able to also load mod_gzip 1.3.x into it and configure
the whole thing, then I am optimistic that this will work.

Yes, mod_gzip is working for the output of mod_proxy - I
am using this mechanism myself.
So if mod_gzip is loaded _after_ the Aventail module and
thus will get its hands on the request _first_, this whole
architecture should work ...
Unless, of course, this Aventail would be modifying the
Apache data structure representing the HTTP request in a
way that mod_gzip would fail to understand.

Regards, Michael