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| author | dgaudet <dgaudet@unknown> | 1998-02-12 01:14:36 +0000 |
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| committer | dgaudet <dgaudet@unknown> | 1998-02-12 01:14:36 +0000 |
| commit | cebb900e99085a76e3a8dfb8f99fb637fdb732ac (patch) | |
| tree | 733c8e035678639e4ae4c8d36886226e8029c9eb | |
| parent | 96b520b267193e71c3851a6ae79ad34efec4aaec (diff) | |
| download | httpd-cebb900e99085a76e3a8dfb8f99fb637fdb732ac.tar.gz | |
doc the addencoding mess
git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@80193 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_mime.html b/docs/manual/mod/mod_mime.html index eb3b405b97..83f115af2e 100644 --- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_mime.html +++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_mime.html @@ -117,7 +117,21 @@ AddEncoding x-compress Z </CODE></BLOCKQUOTE> This will cause files ending in .gz to be marked as encoded using the x-gzip -encoding, and .Z files to be marked as encoded with x-compress.<P><HR> +encoding, and .Z files to be marked as encoded with x-compress.<P> + +Old clients expect <code>x-gzip</code> and <code>x-compress</code>, +however the standard dictates that they're equivalent to <code>gzip</code> +and <code>compress</code> respectively. Apache does content encoding +comparisons by ignoring any leading <code>x-</code>. When responding +with an encoding Apache will use whatever form (i.e. <code>x-foo</code> +or <code>foo</code>) the client requested. If the client didn't +specifically request a particular form Apache will use the form given by +the <code>AddEncoding</code> directive. To make this long story short, +you should always use <code>x-gzip</code> and <code>x-compress</code> +for these two specific encodings. More recent encodings, such as +<code>deflate</code> should be specified without the <code>x-</code>. + +<P><HR> <H2><A name="addhandler">AddHandler</A></H2> |