Re: Re^6: Status of Debian Policy

[Carey Evans <c.evans@clear.net.nz>]

<branden@apocalypse.sequitur.org> writes:

[snip]

> For every .html request that comes in (or perhaps for any request in
> general), look for a file fitting the traditional spec.
> 
> If that fails, look for a .gz version of that file in the same directory.
> 
> If that fails, return the usual 404 error.

Sounds great.

> Does anything already implement this?  If not, why not?

>From my limited memory of looking at Apache, this should even be
possible to do in a module without touching the source.  There would
need to be some decisions made like should it 1) use the original
filename but set Content-Encoding (or whatever); or 2) send an HTTP
redirection to the .gz; or 3) uncompress it before sending?  It should
be configurable at run time, anyway.

How much bloat would the second option above add to boa?

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