www/server mirror.html

[Therese Godefroy]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 19/04/09 13:39:59

Modified files:
        server         : mirror.html 

Log message:
        Say the server shouldn't send the Content-Encoding header (RT #1374693).

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/mirror.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.167&r2=1.168

Patches:
Index: mirror.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/server/mirror.html,v
retrieving revision 1.167
retrieving revision 1.168
diff -u -b -r1.167 -r1.168
--- mirror.html 14 Mar 2019 09:39:51 -0000      1.167
+++ mirror.html 9 Apr 2019 17:39:58 -0000       1.168
@@ -125,29 +125,10 @@
 mirrors to support HTTPS as the most secure option.</p>
 
 <p>Set up your web server
-configuration to avoid sending <tt>.gz.sig</tt> files (signatures of
-compressed files, of which there are many on our servers) as
-gzip-encoded.  For Apache, this means:</p>
+configuration to avoid sending the Content-Encoding header because it
+causes problems with some gateways.</p>
 
-<pre class="emph-box">
-AddType application/pgp-signature .sig
-# make sure .sig files are _not_ sent with "Content-Encoding: gzip".
-&lt;Files *.gz.sig&gt;
-  RemoveEncoding .gz
-&lt;/Files&gt;
-&lt;Files *.tgz.sig&gt;
-  RemoveEncoding .tgz
-&lt;/Files&gt;
-</pre>
-
-<p>Variation: if your AddEncoding lines do not have a leading dot for
-the extension, for instance like this:</p>
-<pre class="emph-box">
-AddEncoding x-gzip gz tgz
-</pre>
-<p>then the RemoveEncoding lines should also not have a leading dot.</p>
-
-<p>Finally, we highly recommend the following setting, so that users can
+<p>With Apache, we highly recommend the following setting, so that users can
 see full filenames in generated listings instead of having them be
 truncated:</p>
 
@@ -297,7 +278,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2019/03/14 09:39:51 $
+$Date: 2019/04/09 17:39:58 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>