[Tclhttpd-users] HTTP with Content-Encoding: gzip

[Jan K. <jj...@gm...>]

Dear all,

I use TclHttpd for the web driven configuration of an embedded device. For 
some reason, I have to generate rather big (1MB) HTML pages for some 
configuration screens. When doing remote support, one would have to upload 
this much information through a 128kBit/s or modem line, which would be very 
disturbing to work with.

HTTP has an optional return-header "Content-Encoding", which allows to e.g. 
gzip the data on the server side and the browser will automagically gunzip 
it. As tclhttpd doesn't support this useful feature, I'd written some lines 
myself. The Trf package (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcltrf) and good ol' 
zlib are used to do the actual compression. 

It's not beautified nor in proper patch format right now  -- I just wonder if 
anyone of you is interested in this, too. Please see the attachment.

Kind regards

	Jan
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