Bug#492463: apache2.2-common: Please enable mod_deflate by default
On Saturday 26 July 2008, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> Please consider enabling mod_deflate by default. For most sites,
> this is a reasonable default in that it conserves bandwidth without
> eating undue amounts of CPU (only HTML and the likes is compressed
> -- in today's AJAX-heavy world you may want to add
> application/javascript to the default list, though :-) ) and makes
> people's pages load a lot faster. There shouldn't be many possible
> negative side effects either, possibly excluding sites with reverse
> proxies that can't grok content negotiation.
Since 2.2.8-5 it is enabled for new installs but not on upgrades, and
I don't think we can change this anymore.
MSIE6 still has many problems with compression, especially for
non-text/html types. For lenny+1, we could consider a configuration
that compresses more file types but disables compression for MSIE6.
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