JavaScript considered harmful (was Re: New online index to Be azley's tutorials)

Tue Jan 8 21:16:37 EST 2002

    >> Did you consider using Content-Encoding: gzip and compress the data
    >> on-the-fly? Usually works very well.

    Tim> IIS 4.0 :(

    Tim> If *anyone* knows how to do it with IIS 4.0 (I've done extensive
    Tim> searches online) please let me know for future reference.

I know nothing about Windows, but that's never stopped me before. ;-)

Can't you add

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Encoding" content="gzip">

to your document's <head> and then gzip the body?  Won't that sneak through
IIS without corruption?

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Skip Montanaro (skip at pobox.com - http://www.mojam.com/)