Transmitting compressed file

[emf]

I am trying to use .htaccss to have the 695.54 KB file

https://files.nyu.edu/emf202/public/nt/ephemeris.csv

transmitted compressed for use on the webpage at my sig.

I already used

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.ms-excel

and

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/octet-stream

as suggested in another newsgroup, as well as

<files *.csv>
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
</files>

with no effect. (I use http://www.whatsmyip.org/http-compression-test/
for testing.)

Does anybody here have a better idea?

Thanks,

Eustace

[Bjoern Hoehrmann]

Post by emf
I am trying to use .htaccss to have the 695.54 KB file
https://files.nyu.edu/emf202/public/nt/ephemeris.csv
transmitted compressed for use on the webpage at my sig.

You should make sure the server is running a web server that supports
`.htaccess` files at all (it does not identify as Apache, it is not
configured like Apache normally would be, and it is common to use some
other server software for static file domains) and that it is configured
to read `.htaccess` files (a simple test would be including a syntax
error in the file, Apache would then report an Internal Server Error).

[emf]

Post by Bjoern Hoehrmann

Post by emf
I am trying to use .htaccss to have the 695.54 KB file
https://files.nyu.edu/emf202/public/nt/ephemeris.csv
transmitted compressed for use on the webpage at my sig.

You should make sure the server is running a web server that supports
`.htaccess` files at all (it does not identify as Apache, it is not
configured like Apache normally would be, and it is common to use some
other server software for static file domains) and that it is configured
to read `.htaccess` files (a simple test would be including a syntax
error in the file, Apache would then report an Internal Server Error).

Thanks. Eventually I'll be contacting the IT department of NYU, but
before doing that I want to have all the technical data I can to be able
to communicate effectively with them.

I changed the .http file to:

<files *.csv>
SetOutputFFilter DEFLATE
</files>

(double FF) but I did not get any error.

The files.nyu.edu uses the Xythos software. Is this information relevant
to what you write?

emf

[Jeff Long]

Post by emf

Post by Bjoern Hoehrmann

Post by emf
I am trying to use .htaccss to have the 695.54 KB file
https://files.nyu.edu/emf202/public/nt/ephemeris.csv
transmitted compressed for use on the webpage at my sig.

You should make sure the server is running a web server that supports
`.htaccess` files at all (it does not identify as Apache, it is not
configured like Apache normally would be, and it is common to use some
other server software for static file domains) and that it is configured
to read `.htaccess` files (a simple test would be including a syntax
error in the file, Apache would then report an Internal Server Error).

Thanks. Eventually I'll be contacting the IT department of NYU, but
before doing that I want to have all the technical data I can to be able
to communicate effectively with them.
<files *.csv>
SetOutputFFilter DEFLATE
</files>
(double FF) but I did not get any error.
The files.nyu.edu uses the Xythos software. Is this information relevant
to what you write?

If they are using Xythos you can't use .htaccess files or in general
control how the server is delivering your files.

Jeff Long