I am compressing html files with gzip.
The browser (FF 3.0.10) does not decompress or display index.html.gz (pre-compressed on the server) when I request index.html
Where can I confirm the zipped header "content-encoding" and the browsers "Accept-Encoding"?
(I am using the zlib API in C for zipping)
Thanks.
Best Answer
if the browser sends
you can compress the content of your http response, not the file on the server's file system. Then in your HTTP response you must set these headers: