Sander Striker wrote:
> Daniel Rall wrote:
>
>> cmpilato@collab.net writes:
>>
>>> solo turn <soloturn99@yahoo.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> uhm ... i would be used to a compression level 0-9 or something like
>>>> this. is there a reason why subversion wants to be different here?
>>>>
>>> Perhaps because we don't to specify a compression level? I was under
>>> the impression that all this value does is tell neon to tell Apache
>>> that, "Hey, if you feel like sending compressed responses, I'm cool
>>> with that." Does neon *send* compressed requests, too?
>>>
>>
>> I cannot say definitively whether it does or does not, but when I was
>> using ethereal to monitor the communication between HTTP client and
>> server, I never saw neon send a compress request. Rather, the client
>> sends the Accept-Encoding HTTP header with a value of "gzip",
>> indicating to the server that it finds only gzip-encoded responses
>> acceptable. As HTTP is a stateless protocol and servers are not (to
>> my knowledge) required to support gzip, it wouldn't really make sense
>> for the client to expect that the server will be able to understand
>> gzip.
>>
>> Section 14.3 of RFC 2616 provides a more thorough explanation:
>> http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.3
>>
> The client can discover if the server supports it by issueing an
> OPTIONS request.
> You typically only need to do this once per session. Unless the admin
> disables
> compression somewhere in the URI space below the repository root.
I should have been more specific. I was talking about compressing the
requests,
so from client -> server.
What the compression option is about is server -> client. The reason it
doesn't
have a level (like cvs does) is because the server admin decides the
level of compression
through the Apache config.
Sander
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Received on Fri Nov 22 00:03:31 2002