An Example Compressed Document

This document is compressed on the server inside of a gzip compressed archive.

The filename is example.html.gz! Did you know that your browser knows how to automatically decompress this file? The server is telling your browser that this file is text/html and is gzip encoded.

Requesting the file from the web

You can request the very same file by any one of these names:

• example
• example.html
• example.html.gz

To create a gzip file

You can use the free gzip utility, zlib compression library, or WinZip.

To create a compress file

You can use the Unix command compress.

To Configure the Server

On Apache, you can use these directives

AddType text/html

AddEncoding gzip gz

AddEncoding compress Z