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serving gziped files only - a good idea?

Answer 1

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See this page from the mod_gzip pages. It has a breakdown of which browsers support what.

Matthew Scharley 2009-10-11 11:10:16

Well, it's a bit dated, but you get the idea. There is *very* good support in every modern browser for gzip compressed files.

Matthew Scharley 2009-10-11 11:13:22

Answer 2

+1 A:

Yes it is a good idea - as far as I know all modern browsers accept gzipped content. One thing you can do to prevent older browsers from being served gzipped content is to tell the web server to not gzip the output for such browsers. Here's an apache example (excerpt from a .htaccess):

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/css text/plain text/xml application
/x-javascript
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

karim79 2009-10-11 11:10:58

Thanks for answering. My question is not related to using gzip normally by a server that can serve both gzipped and non gzipped version according to the browser. My question is about serving only gzipped versions, so browsers withoug gzip support will not get served.

Nir 2009-10-11 11:19:57

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