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<p>mod_gzip</p>
<a title="Compression of HTTP content using Content-Encoding" href="encoding.htm">Content-Encoding</a>
<a title="Which browsers can handle 'Content-Encoding: gzip'?" href="browser.htm">Browsers</a>
<a title="How do Firewalls handle 'Content-Encoding:'?" href="firewalls.htm">Firewalls</a>
<a title="An example configuration for mod_gzip" href="config.htm">Configuration</a>
<a title="Complete description of mod_gzip status codes" href="status.htm">Status Codes</a>
<a title="Possible enhancements in future versions of mod_gzip" href="enhancements.htm">Enhancements</a>
<a title="Caching of negotiated HTTP responses" href="cache.htm">Caching</a>
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<h1><tt>mod_gzip</tt> - serving compressed content by the Apache webserver</h1>
<h2><tt>mod_gzip</tt> - what's that, anyway?</h2>
<p><tt>mod_gzip</tt> is an <strong>external extension module</strong> for the WWW's most popular web server <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/"><img class="linkicon" height="15" width="16" alt="arrow" title="external" src="extern.gif" />Apache</a>, created in autumn, 2000.</p>
<p>Its implementation allows for using the <strong>compression method <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1952.txt"><img class="linkicon" height="15" width="16" alt="arrow" title="external" src="extern.gif" /><code>gzip</code></a></strong> for a significant reduction of the volume of web page content served over the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html"><img class="linkicon" height="15" width="16" alt="arrow" title="external" src="extern.gif" />HTTP</a> protocol.</p>
<div class="new13192a"><p>Starting with version 1.3.19.2a <tt>mod_gzip</tt> has found a <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mod-gzip/"><img class="linkicon" height="15" width="16" alt="arrow" title="external" src="extern.gif" />new home</a>.</p></div>
<h2>And what are these pages all about?</h2>
<p>A <strong>documentation</strong> that would be worth this name <small>(in my eyes ;-)</small> does not <small>(yet)</small> yet exist - neither for users nor for programmers <small>(who possibly want to implement more features into this module)</small>.</p>
<p>Thus I made it my goal to collect <strong>information of any kind about <tt>mod_gzip</tt></strong> and provide them in German as well as in English <small>(detecting the appropriate language from the browsers HTTP header <code>Accept-Language:</code> - so be sure to set this one in your browser configuration)</small>.</p>
<div class="new13192a"><p>Especially these pages already document the changes of the version 1.3.19.2a as opposed to version <a href="http://www.remotecommunications.com/apache/mod_gzip/"><img class="linkicon" height="15" width="16" alt="arrow" title="external" src="extern.gif" />1.3.19.1a</a> <small>(possibly the last one that has been published by <a href="http://www.remotecommunications.com/"><img class="linkicon" height="15" width="16" alt="arrow" title="external" src="extern.gif" />Remote Communications Inc.</a>)</small></p></div>
<div class="new13261a"><p>More modifications have been caused by the release of version 1.3.26.1a.</p></div>
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<p id="mail">(<a href="mailto:michael.schroepl@gmx.de?subject=mod_gzip">Michael Schröpl</a>, 2002-09-28)</p>
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