contentencoding

When serving JavaScript files, is it safe to gzip it by default

The question fits in the title. I am not interested in what the spec recommend but what the mix of browsers currently deployed support the best. Google Docs gzips their JS. The Google AJAX Libraries API CDN gzips JS. Yahoo gzips the JS for their YUI files. The Yahoo home page gzips their JS. So I think that the answer to my question ...

VS2005 UTF-8 generic HTTP handler: problem with certain chars in query string (e.g. þ æ)

I am developing a generic HTTP handler in VS2005 and testing it in Debug Mode. It works well except when the query string contains higher-bit characters, e.g. Latin Small Letter Thorn /u00FE þ and Latin Small Letter Ae /u00E6 æ. IE8 on my machine is set to send UTF-8 URLs. I am typing the following into the IE8 address bar when debuggi...