On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:06:41 +0100, David Dorward wrote:
> Neil Cherry wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure if this is the correct place or not, I think it is. I
>> checked with my hosting provider and mod_deflate (Apache hosting) is
>> not available on my setup. I'd like to compress (ex: gzip index.html)
>> some of the files for better load times. I should clean up the site
>> and make the pages smaller but that's not going to happen any time
>> soon. If I compress the file (except already compressed file such as
>> .png, .jpeg, .gif and .zip files, for example) will I lock out any of
>> the users of popular browsers?
>
> How do you propose to compress them without mod_deflate?

Actually part of the answer was easy but not the second part. I'd
simply gzip index.html (resultant: index.html.gz) before hand but the
Apache server won't serve up the file as it would with index.html. So
calling http://www.linuxha.com/ wouldn't get you the index.html.gz
file. I've currently abandoned this idea.

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