- From: Timur Mehrvarz <Timur.Mehrvarz@web.de>
- Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:12:26 +0100
- To: ted@w3.org
- Cc: sysreq@w3.org, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>, public-cdf@w3.org, jose@w3.org
Hi Ted. The issue is solved. WebKit does require "Content-Encoding: gzip", but it also requires for the gziped text document to have a ".txt" file extension. ".txt" should not be required, I think, but it is the not the purpose of our test to verify this. Only to make sure gzip encoding is available (at all) in a uniform way. I have modified the testcase referenced below, which now works as intended in all listed user agents. Thank you very much for your support. Timur http://www.w3.org/2004/CDF/TestSuite/WICD_CDR_WP1/wicdcore.xhtml#core55 On 23.12.2007, at 23:06, Ted Guild wrote: > Timur Mehrvarz <Timur.Mehrvarz@web.de> writes: >>> Timur: Our server should not be using x-gzip, so I have copied >>> sysreq on this reply. >>> >>> Sysreq: if there is some reason that we use the unofficial x-gzip >>> when gzip is the correct and registered content encoding, please let >>> us know; otherwise, please change the W3C servers to use the correct >>> value. > > Apparently this is still Apache's default behavior, apparently for > "old clients." I tried a number of clients just now including lynx > and most handle gzip fine, emacs w3 didn't but then it doesn't handle > x-gzip either. > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_mime.html#addencoding > > It looks like someone tried to argue dropping the x-gzip default over > four years ago without much success. > > http://marc.info/?l=apache-docs&m=104749017605381&w=2 > >> Hi sysreq. Any chance we can have "Content-Encoding: gzip" instead of >> "Content-Encoding: x-gzip" anytime soon? > > Done now as there is no point in keeping the x- around since the other > is standardized, long ago at that. > > Another thing I find odd with Apache here is that with this .txt.gzip > resource it that it gives the content type for the first file > extension (.txt) it comes across and not the last (.tgz). > > HEAD \ > http://www.w3.org/2004/CDF/TestSuite/WICD_CDR_WP1/test-encoding-gzip.txt.tgz > \ > |grep Content- > > Content-Encoding: gzip > Content-Length: 168 > Content-Type: text/plain > > HEAD http://www.w3.org/People/Ted/foo.gz |grep Content- > > Content-Encoding: gzip > Content-Length: 53 > Content-Type: application/gzip; qs=0.001 > > IMHO it should give application/gzip in such cases. We'll look into > that and follow up with Apache folks. > > -- > Ted Guild <ted@w3.org> > W3C Systems Team > http://www.w3.org
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