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Re: [PATCH 14/17] New module: gzip-on-the-fly Martin Stjernholm <mast[at]roxen[dot]com> 22-01-2009
"Arjan van Staalduijnen" <<Arjan.van.Staalduijnen[at]rtl.nl>> wrote:

> /.../ The vary_callback mechanism was the only thing available to
> guarantee proper responses to non-supportive browsers, so in my
> opinion it is a requirement.

Perhaps true if you do it in a module, but if you build it into the
protocol then you can bypass the cache or (if it's worth the bother)
unpack the compressed cache entry. That's what I meant.