find-compressed

Applicable in PathCheck-class directives.

The find-compressed function checks if a compressed version of the requested file is available. If the following conditions are met, find-compressed changes the path to point to the compressed file:

• A compressed version is available

• The compressed version is at least as recent as the noncompressed version

• The client supports compression

Not all clients support compression. The find-compressed function enables you to use a single URL for both the compressed and noncompressed versions of a file. The version of the file that is selected is based on the individual client's capabilities.

A compressed version of a file must have the same file name as the noncompressed version but with a .gz suffix. For example, the compressed version of a file named /httpd/docs/index.html would be named /httpd/docs/index.html.gz. To compress files, you can use the freely available gzip program.

Because compressed files are sent as is to the client, you should not compress files such as SHTML pages, CGI programs, or pages created with Java Server Pages^TM (JSP^TM) technology that need to be interpreted by the server. To compress the dynamic content generated by these types of files, use the http-compression filter.

The find-compressed function does nothing if the HTTP method is not GET or HEAD.

Parameters

The following table describes parameters for the find-compressed function.

Example

<Object name="default">NameTrans fn="assign-name" from="*.html" 
	name="find-compressed"...</Object><Object name="find-compressed">
	PathCheck fn="find-compressed"</Object>

See Also

http-compression