RE: Is HTML compressed?
On 25-Feb-99 Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> I've got a package with _loads_ of .html files, but I can't see if they
> should be compressed or not. The policy-manual describes what to do for
> info files and manpages, but not for HTML - it just falls under the
> "compress unless it's small".
>
> I've no idea which webserver can server .gz files uncompressed, but I'd
> think it was most of them.
>
If it goes into /usr/docs, compress large files (dh_compress takes care of
this). The user is responsible for uncompressing the info.
New apaches can be forced to read gzipped pages.
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