[darcs-users] Re: solution to the "slow get" problem?

Mark Stosberg mark at summersault.com
Thu Apr 7 18:40:23 UTC 2005


On 2005-04-07, VMiklos <mamajom at axelero.hu> wrote:
>
> how would you let apache or any ftp server to create a tarball of the repo?

When fetching over http, darcs could sent an "Accept-Encoding" header,
noting that it accepts compressed content. 

On the Apache end, something like mod_gzip can be used to compress the
content on the fly.

[ checks ].

It looks like libcurl may already have support for this feature, so we
may closer than we think.

At this point, it's probably more of a documentation issue to explain
that it's possible and how to do it.

Although, as someone else mentioned, if the patches are already
compressed, there may be little point. 

    Mark





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