4.4. Sending Compressed Web Pages
Several recent browsers know how to handle gzipped content, automatically uncompressing documents that are marked with the Content-Encoding header and then treating the result as though it were the original document. Sending such compressed content can be a real timesaver, since the time required to compress the document on the server and then uncompress it on the client is typically dwarfed by the savings in download time, especially when dialup connections are used.
Browsers that support content encoding include most versions of Netscape for Unix, most versions of Internet Explorer for Windows, and Netscape 4.7 and later for Windows. Earlier Netscape versions on Windows and Internet Explorer on non-Windows ...
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