Re: transparent output compression patch

How do you want to collect the information? Just send it to the php-dev mailing list and then hardcode it into php? -Jade. On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 07:29:15PM -0300, Manuel Lemos wrote: > Hello Jade, > > On 23-Nov-00 14:56:43, you wrote: > > >On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 02:08:59PM -0300, Manuel Lemos wrote: > >> I propose that we start building a knowledge base of browsers that in > >> practice do not support compression and proxy servers that corrupt > >> compressed data. > >Why don't you just present a concept of this knowledge base? > > It's nothing more than the list user agents (browsers and proxy servers) > that may mislead a server into believing that the they support compression > when in reality they don't. > > The usual procedure is to check the user agent supports compression by > verifying the presence of the request header Accept-Encoding: gzip etc.. > > Than you need of the user agent is one of those in the knowledge base of > browsers that actually do not support compression despite they send the > Accept-Encoding header. > > If the browser is not in the knowledge base, then verify if the proxy > server that forwards the request is not one of those that mangle compressed > text/html input because it contains NUL bytes in the middle or for some > other unknown reason. > > We don't know all reasons, browsers or proxy servers that void the use of > compression, but the sooner we start cooperating sharing information, the > sooner we will be able to use compression in our sites as a viable speed > boost solution that may be used as much as possible without preventing part > of the audience to access the content normally without compression if > necessary. > > > Regards, > Manuel Lemos