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Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 08:05:13 -0400
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Subject: Re: Fast by default
From: Eric Covener <covener@gmail.com>
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> Typically, you
> would want to front a mod_deflate with an HTTP cache, such as mod_cache (or
> equivalent). Here mod_cache only makes sense if you have the disk space to
> support it, and there is no real one-size-fits-all cache setup.

> This said, our default config is 15 years old, and attempts to disable
> deflate for browsers that don't support it, like "Netscape 4". Unless there
> are modern browsers that have broken protocol support for transfer encoding,
> these obsolete examples need to be removed.

These go together a bit Vary, the current workarounds for old browsers
cause Vary: User-Agent which is quite a buzzkill for a cache!

-- 
Eric Covener
covener@gmail.com