From: Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>
Date: 2007-12-10T20:21:30+09:00
Subject: Re: [PATCH] http compression, zlib agnostic, for 1.9

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Aaron Patterson wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 05:28:01AM +0900, Hugh Sasse wrote:
> > I have revised my http compression (gzip, deflate) patch such that
> > if zlib is not available, the patch is effectively switched out.
> > This works on my system, which has zlib.  I don't have a system
> > without zlib to check that the behaviour is definitely sensible.
> > I've also been unable to test the deflate variety of compression,
> > since I can still only find servers with gzip as the option.
> > 
> > Can anyone help me out with these testing deficiencies, please?
> 
> My system has zlib, but I made it break on purpose to test on-zlib
> support, and this patch worked for me.  So will this get applied?
> 

Thank you for doing that work.

        Hugh