Re: SPEC: DNS conventions & "naming" of VRML sites

Brian Behlendorf (brian@organic.com)
Fri, 16 Jun 1995 13:14:52 -0700 (PDT)

On Fri, 16 Jun 1995, Number 6 wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jun 1995, Bjoern Stabell wrote:
> > Compression is supported by todays standards. With CERN httpd 3.0 and
> > Netscape 1.1 st least, if you try to access a URL that is mapped to
> > filename.html on the server's filesystem, and the
> > filename.html.gz, the
> > content-encoding to x-gzip. Netscape understands how to decode
> > x-gzip and does that before handling the
>
> So conversely, would filename.wrl.gz be handled in the
> it isn't by default- can this be externally implelinted?

Just about every server I've worked with (GN, WN, NCSA, Apache, CERN,
NetSite) can be told to serve files "Content-Encoding" line to indicate to the browser that it should unzip
it. However, having the return "foo.wrl.gz" is only supported currently by Apache and CERN.

Brian

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