Re: gzip (was blogs.msdn.com)

[Robert Sayre <mint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sam Ruby wrote:

> 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. 

hmm. works for me. It must be looking for some other headers in addition 
to Accept-Encoding. Using the handy LiveHTTPHeaders extension[0] for 
Firefox, I get this:

GET /MainFeed.aspx HTTP/1.1
Host: blogs.msdn.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) 
Gecko/20040608 Firefox/0.8
Accept: 
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,*/*;q=0.1
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.x 200 OK
Cache-Control: public
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 16:24:28 GMT
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Encoding: gzip
Last-Modified: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 16:24:16 GMT
Etag: 9/9/2004 12:24:16 PM
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
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X-AspNet-Version: 1.1.4322

Robert Sayre

[0] http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/livehttpheaders