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[Sam Ruby <rubys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Sayre wrote:
> Dare Obasanjo wrote:
>
> > I'm surprised no one has mentioned the obvious choice
> > of using HTTP compression. 
>
> It's already on, isn't it? [0]
>
> [0] http://www.pipeboost.com/getreport.asp?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fweblogs.asp.net%2Fmainfeed.aspx 

As near a I can tell, it is NOT.  See:

   http://intertwingly.net/stories/2004/09/09/test.py

Also, James Robertson is having some trouble with conditional get, a 
problem that I can't reproduce:

  http://scoblecomments.scripting.com/discuss/msgReader$17873?mode=day
  http://scoblecomments.scripting.com/discuss/msgReader$17885?mode=day

This has also surfaced a suggestion that is interesting from a social 
engineering perspective:

  http://scoblecomments.scripting.com/discuss/msgReader$17884?mode=day

- Sam Ruby