Tickets :: Comment on [#11017] precompress files in /static

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Comment	>> With pre-compression I mean to extend Horde to create for each >> static/f.js a corresponding static/f.js.gz and for each static/k.css >> a corresponding static/k.css.gz file at the same time the original >> file (without .gz) is created. > > Why? What good is a .gz file unless the web server* delivers it as > such. You can't just place a .gz file in a directory and expect a > webserver to use that when the base file is accessed. This demands > additional configuration on the webserver, so putting an option in > horde's conf.php that doesn't do anything by default on is not > desirable. Especially when there are other options available on the > webserver side that does this all transparently. Why configure 2 > locations when you only have to configure 1? > >> When a browser requests static/m.js and does Accept-Encoding: gzip, >> the webserver checks if static/m.js.gz exists, and sends >> static/m.js.gz to the browser,(instead static/m.js) stating the >> response is gzip-encoded. > > And you just proved my point. As you write "When a browser requests > [the file] ... the WEBSERVER checks...." This is by no means the > default action for webservers and requires additional configuration. > >> I know the payload for any html page is not known until the page is >> created, however this is not true exactly true for javascript/css >> files, which are created once but delivered several times. > > This is an incorrect statement. The CSS for any given page is not > known until someone accesses that page for the first time, just like > the javascript files. > >> I think this functionality belongs to Horde and it is not up to each >> single administrator to find ways to compress the .js/.css files from >> static/ . > > Disagree. > > I recommend you look at lighttpd and the mod_compress module, > specifically compress-cachedir, which does all this compression > transparently.
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