-> wouldn't it be great to simply have gzip available as
-> filter for any data on the system.
AND invoke them from httpd, as well as the client.
I've started a hack on NCSA's httpd to auto gzip/gunzip
on the fly, but haven't had the time to complete it, yet...
allowing a client to specify an added or truncated extension
as with the wu.ftpd -- URL: ... somefile.html - client requests
somefile.html.gz or vice versa. Now with the htmld as well,
once I get a few minutes to get back to it, I'll also allow
for somefile.htmld -> client requests somefile.htmld.tgz
for the WHOLE hierarchy.... There would be times that
a whole directory tree would NOT be what's desired, though
so that'd probably only be appropriate for a proxy server
to request - or make the gnutar use a -T list excluding
subdirectories.
(Politics has been taking up too much of my time. Watch
for news once it all passes)..