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mod_deflate in Apache 2 produces?

Hi,

What is the compression mechanism that mod_deflate in Apache2. Is it gzip or zlib or something else?

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mod_deflate uses zlib.

Gumbo  2009-04-27 15:27:50
Thanks Gumbo, I also found some more literature on this, http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.compression/2007-07/msg00011.html
 2009-04-27 15:58:30

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