785801 - gzip SVG attachments when the user agent allows it

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 847422

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Editing, defect, P3)

Description

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

When sending back data from the servers, we gzip then in order to minimize the amount of data send (if the user agent allows it w/ the Accept-Encoding	gzip, deflate )

But, by default, we don't do it for image/* as most image format are already compressed and gzipping them doesn't shrink the image size.

But for SVG images (Content-Type: image/svg+xml), we should send it back compressed as it is a non-compressed format: I expect to see the two headers in the response:
Content-Encoding:	gzip
Vary:			Accept-Encoding

(It is likely a few config options in Apache configuration)

Comment 1

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Marking as a duplicate of bug 847422. While this one is older, bug 847422 is more general and provides a full specification.