[Mod_gzip] Serving precompressed static files *without* mod_gzip?

[Nigel Hamilton]

HI Stephen,

	The test url I'm using is: http://turbo10.com/text.html
	
	The actual file I want to serve is in my document root as: 
text.html.gz.

	At the moment requests to http://turbo10.com/text and 
http://turbo10.com/text.html all end in a 404 and requests to 
http://turbo10.com/text.html.gz results in a gziped file - which throws up 
a 'Save As' box.

	The MultiView setting doesn't seem to be working at all ... hmmmm 
... I'll keep checking.

	Thanks for the help,

Nige



> In some respects, this may be less of an issue with your attempts to use compression and more of an issue with IE.
> 
> MSIE has a real problem using compression if the protocol is stepped down to HTTP/1.0. You may want to see if another browser -- Mozilla, Opera, etc. -- can handle this; then you at least you know it works.
> 
> What happens if you send http://www.foobar.org/index ? What page does multiviews select for you?
> 
> smp
> 
> ***
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm trying to set up Apache 1.3 so it can serve
> > precompressed static files (e.g., index.html.gz) that will transparently
> > decompress and display at the client, when the client requests index.html.
> > 
> > I'm doing this to avoid the latency of gzipping the content on the
> > fly (albeit relatively small) for otherwise static content.
> > 
> > I know this can be done with mod_gzip but I'm sure there must be a
> > really simple way to do this with vanilla Apache 1.3 by using multiviews?
> > 
> > I've tried something like this in httpd.conf:
> > 
> > Options ExecCGI MultiViews
> > AddEncoding gzip .gz
> > 
> > ... but when the file arrives at the client (IE 5.0+) the
> > 'Save As' dialog pops up.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > 
> > Kind Regards,
> > 
> > 
> > NIge
> > 
> > 
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