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OT: Accept-Encoding (was: 'pushing' vs direct array assignment ?)

From	Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	OT: Accept-Encoding (was: 'pushing' vs direct array assignment ?)
Date	2013-06-05 15:23 +0200
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Tim Slattery wrote:
> Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> wrote:
> 
>> Mel Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Martin said:
>>>> I am missing someting, here.  How do you
>>>> zip JavaScript code and still get it to run
>>>> in the browser?
>>>
>>> Hi Martin:
>>>
>>>     In your Apache Server configuration file (httpd.conf), ensure the 
>>> following are set:
>>>
>>>     LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so
>>>
>>>     then in your specific virtual host ensure the following are added:
>>>
>>>        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml
>>>        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css text/javascript
>>>        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
>>
>> Thank you, but I don't have control of
>> people's browsers.
> 
> Those are server commands, telling the server to compress those files
> before shipping them. But is it true that all browsers know what to do
> when they receive such a file?

A client may send an Accept-Encoding header[1] to tell the server about
the encodings he is able to handle.  The server should not send any
response that is not acceptable according to this request header.

[1] <http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.3>

-- 
Christoph M. Becker

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'pushing' vs direct array assignment ? "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-06-03 13:59 -0600
  Re: 'pushing' vs direct array assignment ? Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2013-06-03 13:39 -0700
    Re: 'pushing' vs direct array assignment ? "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-06-03 14:46 -0600
    Re: 'pushing' vs direct array assignment ? Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2013-06-04 02:07 +0200
      Re: 'pushing' vs direct array assignment ? "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-06-03 18:40 -0600
        Re: 'pushing' vs direct array assignment ? "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-06-03 20:38 -0600
        Re: 'pushing' vs direct array assignment ? Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2013-06-04 09:11 -0600
          Re: 'pushing' vs direct array assignment ? "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-06-04 12:47 -0600
            Re: 'pushing' vs direct array assignment ? Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2013-06-04 22:44 +0200
              Re: 'pushing' vs direct array assignment ? "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-06-04 16:02 -0600
            Re: 'pushing' vs direct array assignment ? Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2013-06-04 20:24 -0600
              Re: 'pushing' vs direct array assignment ? Gregor Kofler <usenet@gregorkofler.com> - 2013-06-05 14:50 +0200
                Re: 'pushing' vs direct array assignment ? Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2013-06-05 22:38 -0600
              Re: 'pushing' vs direct array assignment ? Tim Slattery <Slattery_T@bls.gov> - 2013-06-05 08:51 -0400
                OT: Accept-Encoding (was: 'pushing' vs direct array assignment ?) Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-06-05 15:23 +0200
  Re: 'pushing' vs direct array assignment ? RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2013-06-05 18:12 -0700
    Re: 'pushing' vs direct array assignment ? "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-06-06 08:54 -0600

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