mod_gzip - serving compressed content by the Apache webserver
Author: Michael Schröpl
Description: An introduction into the meaning and function principles of the Apache module 'mod_gzip'
Keywords: Apache, HTTP, encoding, gzip, mod_gzip, compression

# `mod_gzip` - serving compressed content by the Apache webserver

## `mod_gzip` - what's that, anyway?

`mod_gzip` is an external extension module for the WWW's most popular web server Apache, created in autumn, 2000.

Its implementation allows for using the compression method `gzip` for a significant reduction of the volume of web page content served over the HTTP protocol.

Starting with version 1.3.19.2a `mod_gzip` has found a new home.

## And what are these pages all about?

A documentation that would be worth this name (in my eyes ;-) does not (yet) yet exist - neither for users nor for programmers (who possibly want to implement more features into this module).

Thus I made it my goal to collect information of any kind about `mod_gzip` and provide them in German as well as in English (detecting the appropriate language from the browsers HTTP header `Accept-Language:` - so be sure to set this one in your browser configuration).

Especially these pages already document the changes of the version 1.3.19.2a as opposed to version 1.3.19.1a (possibly the last one that has been published by Remote Communications Inc.)

More modifications have been caused by the release of version 1.3.26.1a.

(Michael Schröpl, 2002-09-28)