
Lets see and example:
Encoder gzip {
Allow html, htm, txt
Deny jpg, png, gz
}
With the previous configuration, it works as follows:
$ wget -q -O - http://localhost/example.html It works! $ wget -q -O - --header="Accept-encoding: gzip" http://localhost/example.html | gzip -dc - It works!
which means that when the client supports the GZip encoding, the server will compress the content while it replies the client in order to save bandwidth and speed up the download.