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

Number 6 ([email protected])
Fri, 16 Jun 1995 18:02:02 +0100 (BST)


On Fri, 16 Jun 1995, Bjoern Stabell wrote:

> Compression is supported by todays standards. With CERN httpd 3.0 and
> Netscape 1.1 at least, if you try to access a URL that is mapped to
> filename.html on the server's filesystem, and the server only finds
> filename.html.gz, the server will send the compressed file and set
> content-encoding to x-gzip. Netscape understands how to decode
> x-gzip and does that before handling the content.

So conversely, would filename.wrl.gz be handled in the same way? I know
it isn't by default- can this be externally implemented?

BCnU

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