Re: Bug#161181: www.debian.org: page for testing distribution should have links to gzipped pages

[cavok@filibusta.crema.unimi.it (Domenico Andreoli)]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 12:04:56PM +0200, Peter Karlsson wrote:
> Domenico Andreoli:
> 
> > i suggest to add links to update_excuses.html.gz and
> > update_output.txt.gz .
> 
> Is that really necessary? The web server should automatically send the
> files gzipped if the browser supports it anyway.
> 
i'm using an of-the-shelf galeon debian package 1.2.6-2. dowloading
gzipped pages directly is still dramatically faster. should i configure
any special setting to enable this negotiation?

thanks

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