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diff --git a/www/mod_gzip/pkg-descr b/www/mod_gzip/pkg-descr index 4472b21fe2b7..e27f24884a7b 100644 --- a/www/mod_gzip/pkg-descr +++ b/www/mod_gzip/pkg-descr @@ -1,9 +1,13 @@ -This apache's module detects the browsers capable of decompressing -the objects on the fly and applies compression to pages, etc. sent -to those browsers. This includes dynamicly generated content too. +mod_gzip is an Internet Content Acceleration module for the popular +Apache Web Server. -Due to browsers' bugs or for other reasons (gzip-ing a typical JPEG -file is silly, for example) you may wish to disable compression of -some MIME-types and mod_gzip allows you to do that. +mod_gzip uses the well established and publicly available IETF +Content-Encoding standards in conjunction with publicy available GZIP +compression libraries such as ZLIB to deliver dynamically compressed +content 'on the fly' to any browser or user-agent that is capable of +receiving it. -WWW: http://www.remotecommunications.com/apache/mod_gzip/ +WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mod-gzip/ + +- Alex Dupre +sysadmin@alexdupre.com |